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At the disassembly HQ

G was looking through the papers he would have to deal with today. He groaned in annoyance, this would give him a headache for sure. As he was about to start he received a message from the company, this surprised him, he quickly opened it, should be important if he was receiving a message directly from them. He read it and was shocked, he then sent T the message and told him to go to his room, so they can talk about it. Soon, G heard a knock on his door, he opened it, revealing T.

“Come in, we need to talk real quick about that” G said, leading T inside his room. T leaned in a wall while G stood in the middle of the room.

“So, new disassemblies are arriving today and N is going to be a part of their team?” T questioned, to wich G simply nodded “Well, hope they aren’t anything like M or N himself, that would be a pain” T groaned.

“Look for the bright side, you’re not dealing with both of them, only M from now on” G tried to be optimistic, wich didn’t help T, since he would be alone with M now that they were allowed to be a duo. G turned to T and said “I need you to tell this to N, I’ll tell the others about the news”

“Why do I have to tell N this?” T questioned, not wanting to talk with N in the moment.

“You have a better relationship with him than I do, now, go” G said with a strict tone. T simply obeyed and walked out of the room.

T walked to N’s room and knocked on the door, he heard something inside stumble and fall, he knew N was there. The door opened, revealing N with a nervous look and behind him some objects on the ground. N looked to see who it was and when he saw it was T, he quickly saluted him.

“H-Hi sir, what do you need?” T simply looked at him, then sighed and said.

“I need to talk with about something” This made N even more nervous.

“S-Sure, what would it be?” N asked with a nervous smile on his face.

“You’re going to move to another team” T said with little emotion on his voice. N’s eyes hollowed.

“W-What?” N whispered, but T heard and responded.

“You’re going to move to another team, they’re going to arrive today, so get ready to introduce yourself the best way you can” N was shocked, but at the same time happy. He was going to get away from M, but at the same time, he was going to get away from M. What would his brother think? T noticed this and groaned “Look, M isn’t going to care that you moved, for all I know, he’s going to be happy about it” T was looking away from N, who opened a smile in his face.

“T-Thanks sir” T groaned in response, wich made N quickly excuse himself and start preparing for his introduction. T stayed there, in front of N’s door. He couldn’t help but care a little bit about him. He shook his head and walked to his room.

With G

G decided to message all disassembly, with the exception of N and T, to go to the lunch area, he had a news to give. He started to walk to the cafeteria, not seeing anyone in the way there. When he arrived there, he saw most disassembly waiting for him, they noticed him walk in, that’s when J spoke.

“So, what’s the news you want to talk about, babe?” G looked around, that’s when he noticed that there were two disassembly missing.

“Where is M and L?” G asked. Some shrugged, others shook their head, while others simply looked at him with a look of ‘I don’t know’. J seemed a bit angry that he ignored her, but decided to not question it further “Ugh, I’ll wait 2 minutes for them, if they don’t arrive in time someone here tell them the news” When he said that, they heard the sound of walking towards the cafeteria.

From the door came two disassembly, M and L, everyone looked at them, some looked with fear at M, while others looked with lust to L. G and M locked their sights, then M asked.

“So, what’s the big news you have to call everyone here?” G cleared his throat and walked to the side, where he could see everyone.

“I’m here to tell that 2 new Disassembly Drones are joining us today” This shocked everyone in the room “I don’t know anything about them, only that they are going to form a new team” G then looked at M “That’s where this news involves you” M noticed he was talking to him, wich made him confused “N is moving from your team to theirs, making you and T a duo team from now on”

It took some moments for M to process what G had said, but when he did, he opened a smile and started to laugh a lot. This startled L who was on M’s side, but soon, he was chuckling too, wich made some girls blush. M stopped laughing and said to no one in particular.

“Finally that runt is going to get away from me, a shame that I won’t beat him in the missions anymore, but better than having to see him” He turned and looked at O “Hey O! How about you throw a party today, no one has anything to do and it’s a special occasion” O thought about it and nodded. This made some smile and others cheered that O was throwing another party. W on the other hand looked a bit worried, so she started to walk out of the cafeteria, but before she got out G cleared his throat, getting everyone’s attention.

“Let’s calm down a bit and hold this enthusiasm for the party, now, all of you should prepare to introduce yourselves, they are going to arrive in about 2 hours, that’s everything I had to say” G then walked out of the room, going back to his own to make sure his work was done when the new disassembly arrived and for the party.

W got out of the cafeteria and walked to N’s room, she knocked on the door and waited for it to open. When the door did open she was met with a shirtless N, she knew he was going to take bath now.

“So you alredy know about the news?” She asked him, wich he happily nodded.

“T told me about it, now I’m preparing myself, don’t wanna cause a bad impression” W sighed, and walked inside his room.

“N, do you wanna talk about something?” She looked at N, who had his hand on his chin, thinking.

“Not that I can remember of” This comentmade W let out a sigh of relief, she was happy that he didn’t seem to be having any trouble with the sudden news, so she just left, leaving a confused N in his room. He shrugged it na went back into his bath.

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At the Disassembly HQ

A pod had landed in the HQ, it was the new Disassembly Drones. The other designations were waiting for them to enter the HQ. They heard their footsteps and some talking.

“Urrghr” It sounded like an animal, some thought it was R who had made the sound, but he was surprinsingly quiet now. This made everyone worried, they would have another R in here, this could only mean problem.

“Don’t worry, let’s just hope they aren’t like them” This one sounded normal, he was calm, but the last part was said with disgust.

The door opened, revealing a tall male disassembly walking with a straight pose and his hands on the back, he had green messy hair with yellow eyes, he wears a black shirt with a thin grey coat and a normal jeans, the other was a medium sized disassembly walking with his back curved and his arms dangling, as if he was an animal, he has a white hair with some leafs on it and yellow eyes he wears a very damaged white shirt and a jeans that was ripped on his knees. They walked and stopped in front of the other disassembly that looked at them with various looks.

“Well” The tall drone looked at the other disassembly “It’s time for the introductions, my name is Serial Designation θ (Theta), I am the leader of the new squad that is moving to this HQ, nice to meet you all” He gave a small bow to them “The one on my side is Serial Designation Ω (Omega), his voice box was broken, so he can’t really talk” Ω groaned in response, making R groan at him, but A tightened his grip on R’s chain “Also, he can act a bit animalistic, so if we can avoid anything that would alert an animal, that would be great” θ said with a smile on his face.

“Well, we’ll introduce ourselves in alphabetical order to make it easier, go A” Said G, pointing at A, that rolled his eyes.

“I’m Serial Designation A” He said coldly, still holding onto’s R’s chain.

“Hmmm” B groaned, wich cought R’s and Ω’s attention, making A grip harder and θ to put his arm in front of Ω, making him stop.

“Sorry, for them, I’m Serial Designation C, nice to meet you two” C said with a calm face.

“I’m Serial Designation D, nice to meet you” D said with a calm face, similar to C.

“Serrial Designation E” E said with a strict tone and a straight pose.

“Great, a german that looks like a nazi, we’re in for something bad” θ whispered to Ω.

“Hello, I’m Serial Designation F, encantado de conocerte” F said touching his mustache. θ couldn’t even have an opinion on the guy.

“I am Serial Designation G, the alpha of this HQ, nice to meet you two” G said with a strict tone, yet friendly. Ω looked at θ with a worried look. θ looked back at him and put a hand in his shoulder and gave a gentle smile. There was a little bit of silence untill P spoke.

“Oh, Sorry, I has a broken voice box” P got close to I who was waving her hand. Ω waved back, understanding the pain, but θ frowed his eyes and looked around the room.

“Sorry to interupt, but, shouldn’t be Serial Designation H first? I have been informed of what happened to S, but nothing on H” The coment made some disassembly start thinking, while others looked around, until G spoke.

“Yeah, she should be here” G looked around, but didn’t see H anywhere. He then looked to the other disassembly “Has anyone seen H around?” Everyone shook their head or shrugged. This made θ look at Ω, worried, and leaned to him.

“They don’t even know where one of their own is, we’re in for a treat” θ whispered to Ω, that quietly groaned in response. θ leaned back as G turned to him.

“Sorry, but it seems that she isn’t around, so we’ll just continue” θ simply gave him a thumbs up.

“I’m Serial Designation J, nice to meet you” J said while bending over, enticing some males behind her, and crossing her arms under her breast, showing them to the new disassembly. θ never took his eyes out of her eyes, not even noticing her attempt, while Ω looked at her with disgust.

“Serial Designation K, bitch” Said K, while Ω and θ looked at each other.

“Pleasure to meet both of you, I’m Serial Designation L” L said with some females disassembly blushing a bit.

“Serial Designation M” M said, making θ glare at him.

“I’m Serial Designation N, you’re new teammate” N said saluting them and with a smile on his face. θ walked to him and looked him up and down, making N nervous, he didn’t stop saluting him until θ spoke.

“You can stop saluting, I don’t demand, nor require it” N quickly put his arms down, still with a smile on his face “Exactly how the company described you, good” N had a curious look “Prepare yourself, today you’re going to have a sparing match with Ω, and tomorrow another one with me. I need to see what you’re good at”

“Nothing” Said M, making the majority of the disassembly giggle, while N nervously laughed. θ simply looked at M with a serious look, making him stop laughing and give the glare back, but they just parted it, while θ waved his hand dismissing N, who quickly walked to his room to prepare himself.

“Well, let’s continue the introductions” θ saind while walking back to Ω’s side with a smile.

“Serial Designation O” O said making a quick salute.

“Serial Designation P” P said in a quick manner, wich made Ω not understand what she said.

“Serial Designation Q” Q said with crossed arms and continued quietly talking with P.

“Well, this on my side is Serial Designation R, he’s quite literally an animal” Said A holding R’s chain. Ω looked at R, who glared back, before anything could happen θ put his hand in front of Ω and gave him a disappointed look.

“Serial Designation T” T said looking directly at θ, who knew who T was, since he was informed of N’s old team.

“I’m Serial Designation U” U said with not much care.

“And I’m Serial Designation V... Is your friend okay?” V asked pointing at Ω, who was looking at U and V with dazzy eyes. θ chuckled at this and leaned close to his friend and whispered.

“They’re twins” Ω then understood why he was seeing two similar drones next to each other.

“Uhrruga” θ looked at him confused.

“How would you be drunk?” Ω simply shrugged it, making θ look at the disassembly, who were confused “Don’t worry, it’s nothing, just continue”

“I’m Serial Designation W” θ had noticed that she hadn’t taken her eyes out of him and Ω, he knew why, he had received information on N’s siblings.

“I’m Serial Designation X, nice to meet you” X said giving a quick bow.

“I’m Serial Designation Y” Y said wanting to go back to her new project.

“I’m Serial Designation Z” Z said while smoking, making θ look at him with a ‘serious?’ look, wich he ignored.

“Well, that’s everything. Everyone go back to do your own things, you two, I’m gonna have a special talk about the rules” G said with a strict tone, making the other disassembly go back to their things and signaling for θ and Ω to follow him.

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At the disassembly HQ

Ω and θ walked out of the dorms with exausted and bored faces. G had finished talking to them about the rules of the place, some where normal things that they alredy knew, but others were simply strange, for example “Never try to win a cussing argument against K” or “Try to never interact with M”, but they just heard through it all.

Ω and θ were walking, streching their articulations, until θ saw N on the side, walking away from the cafeteria, he didn’t seem to be hurt, but was clearly not happy and with a hand in his back.

“Hey there, ready for the battle?” θ asked, to wich N simply looked at him startled, but quickly straightened his posture.

“Y-Yes sir” N said with a forced smile, saluting, but quickly got his hand down as he remembered that θ didn’t want to be saluted. θ forwed his eyes at N, who got nervous and looked around the corridor.

“Turn around and show me your back” θ said with a strict tone, ordering N, who was too scared to go against, so he turned around and raised his coat, revealing that his back was a bit dented “Well, this is less than I thought it would be, how do you feel?” θ asked N, who looked kinda surprised, but simply scratched the back of his head.

“I’m fine, nothing to worry about” N said with a smile. Ω and θ looked to each other and simply shrugged it off, and started walking to the arena, signaling N to follow them. They walked to the arena, it was silence, no one even made a sound in the way there. This made N very nervous, but he had to give his new team the best he got.

They entered the arena, there was no one inside, N was a bit reliefed, since he wouldn’t have to endure the reaction of his other allies. θ walked to the side, while Ω ran to the other side of the arena, N stood where he was, preparing himself mentally, he had to be careful, he didn’t know what Ω was capable of.

“Well, are both of you ready?!” θ asked both of them, receiving a nod and a groan from Ω, but N was shocked.

“We’re starting alredy?” N asked, to wich θ looked at him.

“Yes, we’re counting on your nervousness” θ annouced smilling, as he got a pistol from his hand and shot in the air, beggining the fight.

N looked at Ω, just to see him pulling his claws out, but he never saw those claws before. Instead of the 3 claws disassembly have, Ω had a claw that came out of the top of his normal hands and extended through his five fingers, having five claws. This shocked N, that was an exclusive weapon to Ω, but he did not back down, N got his blades out and got ready for Ω’s next move.

Ω got into all fours with his arms crossed, making an X shape. His claws dug into the ground, while he started to walk back, for the surprise of N and G’s team who had just entered the arena, Ω’s arms begun to increase in size, but decrease in width, as if his arms were giant springs.

In the blink of an eye Ω jumped foward, while releasing his claws, prepelling him foward in a speed that N couldn’t react, so he tried to defend his body, crossing his blades in an X shape. θ snickered seeing what N was doing, remebering that many disassembly fell for that trick before. Ω, in the middle of the air, started spinning around, N saw this and tried to hide his head with his blades, but wasn’t fast enough, Ω hit him with a kick in the head, sending N to the side with enormous force, while Ω had to dig his claws into the ground to stop his momentum, he fell and looked to where N was.

θ smiled at this, he always found this attack funny, specially because it only works one time, but G’s team were impressed, they had never seen a drone do that before, so G approached θ.

“Wow, that was impressive, but I have a question, how did he do that?” G asked.

“Well, you see, due to lack of resources at his making and his parents having problems, Ω was born with a metal that can stretch itself” θ responded, making G put his hand on his chin.

“This attack was pretty impressive, but it isn’t very affective against someone who alredy saw it” D said walking towards G and θ with C.

“Yes, Ω likes to use this on new people, he always liked spinning in the air” θ said remembering some times where Ω used this on they’re old teammentes.

“He must love to fight with his wings then” C said.

“He would if he had any” θ said looking at the arena, where he saw N getting up, he was trembling, but not out.

“What do you mean?” G asked in surprise.

“Ω’s metal is too weak to hold wings, thus why he doesn’t have any” θ responded looking that N had deployed his wings and started shooting at Ω, who dodged the bullets with incredible speed. G’s team looked back at the arena, wondering what would Ω so next.

N flew to the air and continued to shoot at Ω, who dodged as much as he could, but N was noticing his paterns and starting to guess where he would go, until a bullet came right where Ω sprinted to. In a quick movement Ω dodged the bullet by rolling to the side, but the bullet had scraped his torso, wich slowed his movements, giving N time to shoot at him, but Ω reacted quickly and took the bullet between his fingers and shot back at N, hitting his visor and breaking it.

N screamed in pain and fell to the ground, but he quickly got up and started to shoot his surroundings while his sytems regenerated, but Ω was able to dodge the bullets and jump in the air, landing a punch right at N’s visor, knocking him out.

“Awesome! He was better than I thought he would be, but I’ll have to see that myself tomorrow” θ said while clapping his hands and walking towards Ω, who clenched his wound. θ offered a hand to Ω, but he denied and pointed to N.

“Urrghr” θ looked at N, and walked to him, picking him up and walking with Ω to the yard.

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At the disassembly HQ

A day has passed since N’s and Ω’s fight. Both were treated in the yard, none of them had any serious injuries, but θ thought it would be better to have then ready to go if they were needed.

θ and Ω were in their new rooms. Ω’s room looked like a cave, it was dark and his bed was a bunch of blankets on the ground. θ room was normal, nothing special about it. Ω was sleeping, while θ was taking a look at the mission he had just received.

The mission was on planet Jinto-98, some workers had run away from the company and formed colonies, but it wasn’t anything dangerous, nor was it a big number of them. θ looked at this as a train mission, to see how the new team approach the situation, this was good, but he needed to see N in action up close to see how the team would be formed, so he got up and walked to Ω’s room. Knocking on the door, he received a groan from inside, until the door opened and revealed a really tired Ω.

“Well sleepy, how about we give N the last test?” θ asked with a little bit of excitement.

“Urggrhu?” Ω responded, not wanting to get out of his room.

“Well, we did receive a new mission, so you’ll have to come with me, I don’t plan on hurting N too much, so he should be fine when we end” Ω simply looked at θ with a tired face, before groaning in annoyance and walking besides him.

“Good, so, about the mission-” They started to walk to the cafeteria, where they thought N was, while talking about the mission. In the way there, they saw M standing in the middle of the corridor, talking with someone, he then clenched his fist and pulled it back. θ quickly ran up to him and fake coughed, getting M’s attention, making him look at θ, behind M was N, hiding his face with his arms, clearly waiting for a beating. θ didn’t like this, but quickly changed his facial expression.

“Sorry to interrupt, but we need N for a mission right now” θ said with a smile on his face. M looked at him with anger, not believing in him.

“Didn’t you say you would spar with him first? I’m saving you time and don’t worry about the mission, the company won’t care if you’re late a little bit” θ showed M the mission on his visor.

“I’m not sure how much the company will like to know that someone is interrupting a new team, that they want to test out, from going in their mission and as a squad leader, I decide when me and my team make the missions, so, why don’t you go make another thing and let us take N?” θ said with a smile on his face while Ω got ready to fight, pissing M off, but he decided to not test them and the company, so he just walked away, stepping on N’s foot, but not breaking it, and trying to bump into θ, but he dodged, making M even angrier. They watched as he walked away, and when they were sure he was far enough, θ started to walk towards N. N looked surprised, while Ω looked at θ with worry “So N, mind telling us what was happening?” θ asked N while helping him get up.

“Uhm... Nothing, we... were just talking” N gave θ a nervous smile, while he just looked at him with a serious look. N saw this and only got more nervous, until θ sighed and just signaled for N to follow him and Ω. In the way there N noticed that θ took two golden rings with a grey X in the middle and put them in both his middles fingers, he wanted to ask what those were, but they had arrived at their destination.

They arrived at the arena, wich again, was empty, making N fell more comfortable. θ quickly made his way to the other side of the arena, while Ω walked to the sidelines and N stayed where he was, preparing himself for whatever was to come. θ pulled a pistol, with a gold flame on the barrel, from his right hand and pointed up, shotting it, signaling that the match had begun.

N took two submachine guns from his hands and pointed to θ, instantly shotting when they locked targets. θ noticed this and put his left hand in front of him and clicked on the back of the ring. From the ring came four blades that started to spin, creating a shield, that bounced and cut the bullets shot in θ’s direction. N was surprised, but decided to not stop and run foward while shotting.

N was getting close and got ready to jump, but before he could, θ throwed an EMP granade in the air, making N stop and back away, but he wasn’t fast enough, as the EMP blast hit him. N didn’t got knocked out, but stopped shotting for some time, enough time for θ to disperse his shield and shoot two bullets from his pistol at N, that even in his state was able to dodge, but as he dodged the bullet, θ moved the fingers from his left hand and the bullets changed trajectory. N couldn’t react to this and got hit in the hands, disabling his weapons, and bearly got hit in the jaw.

N was able to bearly dodge the last bullet, wich surprised θ, but he continued moving his left fingers and the bullet started to dance in the air. N was shocked from this, he never saw this before, as he was going to ask θ how he was doing that, θ said.

“Stringed bullets, specialty of mine” When he finished, the bullet came directly to N’s core. N was able to dodge enough so the bullet wouldn’t kill him, but still hit his chest, causing immense pain to him.

“AAAAARGH” N screamed, breathing heavily, while θ just looked at him.

“I knew you could dodge the bullet!” θ said with a smile on his face, he turned his pistol into his normal hands and clapped them, announcing “Well, that’s it for this match, you did great, now, let’s go to the pod and go to our mission, Ω’s going to heal you real quick” Ω groaned on the side, wich made θ chuckle a bit.

N was still on the ground, breathing heavily, when Ω came close and took the bullet from his chest and spitted on the wound, making N feel a lot better. Soon θ came close and offered N a hand, wich he took with a bit of hesitation.

“You were beter than I thought, didn’t expect you to dodge that bullet” θ said, reassuring N that he was good, this made N feel a bit better, but he couldn’t feel like he deserved this praises, as he didn’t even land a hit in both of them.

They quickly walked together to the pod, not wanting to meet anyone. Inside, θ set their destination and put it in auto-pilot, wanting to talk with his team about their formation.

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Ω, θ and N were on their pod, heading to the mission they were given by the company. N was supposed to be piloting the pod, but θ told him to put it in auto-pilot, since he wanted to talk with him and Ω. N was sitting in a chair, facing Ω, who was sitting on the ground and θ, who was sitting on another chair.

“So, I need to tell you guys about the formation of the team and what everyone will do” θ said, getting the attention of both his teammates.

“You guys do this?” N asked, making θ look at him.

“Yes? What do you mean?” θ was confused, as was N.

“Well, it’s just that, we usually just land and kill, no plan in mind” N explained with nervousness in his voice, he didn’t know if he said something wrong. θ looked at N as if he hadn’t understand what he said.

“Yes, that’s because the other teams were made to kill, we are not” θ had a confused expression, but N was even more confused.

“W-What do you mean?”

“Did they not tell you?”

“T-Tell me what?” N never liked being lied to, so this situation for him was horrible, had they lied to him? No, T wouldn’t do that, but then, why?

“We are a special team, we’re the Rescue Team. We were made to rescue the workers who still want to work for the company” θ was serious, did they really not tell him? That was just more work for him. N’s visor switched to a loading symbol, until it switched back to his normal eyes.

“WHAT!?” Ω was startled by the sudden noise and jumped, quickly landing in a battle stance, looking to his sides to see what had happened. θ just patted his head, conforting him, making Ω calm down.

“Don’t scream” θ said with a serious tone, making N cover his mouth and look towards Ω, who was still a bit startled, but was alredy laying on the ground, ready to sleep.

“S-Sorry, but... I didn’t know abouth this... Rescue Team” θ sighed.

“Didn’t G tell you about it?” N shook his head, making θ sigh again. That HQ really was something huh, but maybe it was the company, it didn’t matter now “Before I continue, do you have any questions about the Rescue Team?” N put his hand on his chin, until a light bulb formed in his visor.

“Why are we doing this, I mean, the company created the disassembly to kill them, why would they want them back?”

“The company needs workers, but creating these drones cost money and resources, so they want to lessen the cost. The way they found to do this was to take some that wanted to go back” N goed back to thinking.

“But how do we do this, they wouldn’t just... Come willingly, would they?”

“No, that’s why we make them fear us first, them erase their memory with this chip” θ takes a chip from his pocket “and ask for a special ship to come and pick them up” N looked at the chip.

“Why do we need to take their memory?”

“The company doesn’t want runaway AI to simply fake wanting to come back and infect the normal workers” N thought a bit more.

“Why do we need to make them fear us first to them erase their memory, couldn’t we just erase it from the start?”

“The chip works better if the drone is willingly infecting himself, since their programming is going to be more open for the virus, so we make them fear us, making them more susceptible to willingly put the chip on by fear of dying” N looked at θ, he didn’t feel comfortable with this, something was off.

“B-But what if they don’t want to go back?” θ looked N straight in the eyes.

“We kill them” N was not comfortable with this, they were just giving the drones a illusion of choice, they would die either way “Look N, I know that this is pretty cruel and all, but we have to do this. It’s either them, or us, no third option” θ looked at N, he knew what he was thinking. Ω simply looked from the side. N knew they were right, but he couldn’t bring himself to do this, this wasn’t right, not that what he did before was, but this felt a bit worse, he was going to do what he didn’t want to happen to him, being lied to.

“Arghrr” Ω groaned from the side, making θ look at him and sigh.

“Maybe your right, but it’s better that he knows now, lying would only worsen things” Ω looked to the side and walked close to N and put his hand on his back “Well, that’s enough sadness for a day. Do you have any other questions?” N looked at θ.

“D-Do you like being lied to?” This questions surprised both disassembly, they weren’t expecting N to ask that, but they knew exactly where he was going with that.

“N-No, I don’t, but I have to lie, we can’t go againt the company N. We were made this way, we have to accept”

“W-WHy me?” N started to tear up.

“You’re considered a defect., like us” N eyes hollowed, he was considered a defect? Why? Was is it because of his kindness? But, everyone always laughed with him, he brought joy to others, wasn’t that supposed to be good? That’s when he heard fingers snapping. He looked up and saw θ snapping his fingers, trying to get his attention “Hey N, don’t get sad over this. We’re just like you, if you feel anything, just tell us, we can and will help you” θ said with a conforting voice. N hugged θ, crying in his shoulders and surprising the same, but he only returned the hug and caressed N’s head.

“Grrharragh” θ chuckled a bit.

“I’m not”

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Ω, θ and N were on their ship. Ω was on the ground, sleeping; θ was waking up while N was alredy up. They had passed the other day conforting N about his new job. N wasn’t okay or happy, but was better and willing to do his job.

θ took some oil from the fridge, it was the limited breakfest they had, and took a few sips, not wanting to end the little oil they had. He walked to the main part of the pod and saw N sitting on a chair, piloting the pod. He walked to N’s side and looked at what exactly he was doing, θ didn’t understand anything of piloting, so he guessed N was just looking to see if they aren’t going to hit anything. He stretched himself and yawned, wich scared N making him scream and jump from the chair and land on the ground with a loud bang.

Ω woke up and got up, instantly jumping on top of where the sound came from. N was on the ground when he felt something roar and jump on top of him, he saw that it was Ω, droling and ready to attack to him, N covered his face, waiting for the pain, but nothing came. When he got his arms off his face, he saw Ω on top on top of him, but not attacking. Soon Ω got off him and walked to the side, sitting on the ground with his head down. N felt bad, he looked sad, even if it wasn’t his fault, so N got up and walked to Ω’s side, smilling at him.

“Urgrr” Ω groaned with what sounded to be a bit of sadness. N didn’t understand, so he looked to θ, who was on the side with his arms crossed.

“He said ‘I’m sorry’” N looked to Ω, who wasn’t looking at N’s face, and hugged him, wich made Ω flich, he accepted it, but didn’t return it.

N broke the hug and looked at Ω, who didn’t look so sad anymore, and felt happy that he could help him in something. N turned to θ, who was smilling, and crossed his arms. θ understood what N meant by that.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you or Ω” θ said with his hands on the air.

“So why didn’t you help me when he jumped on me?”

“Ω might act like an animal, but he’s not one. I knew he could stop himself” θ and N looked to each other, but soon broke it “Well, since everyone is awake, I think it’s a good time to tell what I wanted to say yesterday” N and Ω looked at him.

“It’s about how the team will be formed and how we’ll act. The first thing we’ll do when we land is go to one of the two colonies in the planet, I’ll see somethings there and for two days we will terrorize the workers” N looked away, not liking the idea, but accepting that it was what had to be done “After these days we will enter the colony and capture veryone inside. N and Ω, both of you will capture the workers, prioratize their life, but do not worry if they die, okay?” N and Ω nodded “I’ll stay outside the bunker for any drone who tries to run away, after everyone is captured I’ll find the main room that controls all the tech in the colony, if there is any, or we’ll just lock them there, doesn’t matter. We’ll force everyone into lines and whoever tries to escape will be killed. N!” N fliched “I want you to give a speech about what we came to do, you’ll have to be as nice as you can be, do you think you can do that?” N thought for some time, he wasn’t sure, but nodded with a little bit of confidence “Good, after the speech you’ll tell the workers to use the chip if they want to go back. Those who put the chip will be taken to a special place and the rest will be killed” Ω nodded, he was alredy used with this, but N was a bit hesitant. θ saw this and walked to him, putting his hands on his shoulders “Sorry N, but we have to do this, so let’s try to, at least, make this a bit more fun” θ said with a smile on his face, wich made N smile and gain a bit of confidence “Okay, so everyone understood?” Both his teammates nodded, θ then clapped his hands “Then that’s it. N you can go back to piloting the pod” θ left the room.

N walked to his chair and came back to concentrate on piloting, until he noticed he didn’t put the ship in auto-pilot when θ came, but fortunaly they weren’t hit by anything. Ω simply goed back to sleep.

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They were finally reaching the planet. They had been on the pod for 3 days. Ω was sitting on the corner of the control room, while N and θ were sitting on the chairs. θ was watching N land, he knew about how clunsy N was, considering the reports made against him because of that, so he was watching him to make sure he would land properly. N was nervous, he didn’t want to mess up his first landing with his new team, but this nervousness was making landing even harder, specially because θ was watching him.

They reached close to land, this was the hardest part, now N needed to time things correctly, so he begun pressing the buttons. To θ it looked like N was pressing a bunch of random buttons, but he had to trust N in this one. Soon they landed with some impact, making Ω fall on his chest and θ to bearly fall from his chair. N was really afraid he messed up, so he opened the door and quickly checked to see if the pod was okay. He checked the entire pod and found some scratches, but nothing serious, he was happy the pod wasn’t broken, until he looked at Ω and θ. Ω looked a bit angry, while θ was serious, he looked at N, making him even more nervous.

“Well, this was good, but try to do better next time, we can’t take the pod back in a state like this” θ looked at the sky, it was night, the moon was in the middle of the sky, he looked around, there was nothing, only ice “Looks like we landed in the frozen area of the planet, good, the nights take longer here” θ then displayed on his visor a yellow map with the entire area up to 50 km from where they were, in the map showed a yellow point “The first colony isn’t far away from here, ready to go?” θ looked back to his teammates, Ω was ready and nodded, N was surprised they were alredy going into action, but nodded nonetheless “Ω, just go 23 km to the North from here”.

N and θ activated their wings and shot to the sky, with θ leading the way, while Ω was running with all 4 of his members at a similar speed as them. This impressed N, the only other drones fast like that was P, but he quickly concentrated back into flying, as he was getting left behind. In some minutes they reached the colony. It was a colony inside a mountain, surrounded by mountains, it had only one entrance, but this entrance was very well made, it was made from a special chemical that the workers found out that nanite wasn’t able to corrupt, and it looked very heavy. They flew down, meeting with Ω, who arrived a little later. N was unsure on what to do, but Ω was simply looking at the colony and θ was looking around.

“There” θ said while pointing to a cave in a mountain to the right of the entrance. N was confused on what he meant.

“Umm... Sir, what exactly are we going to do with that”

“Well you see, we have to keep the worker in check, so we’re going to be looking at this entrance for the entire day, 24 hours, so we’ll need a place to hide from the sun while being able to keep a look in this door” θ explained, making N nod “I’ll just need to check if this is really the only entrance, we don’t want them escaping from the other side” θ said while spreading his wings and shotting into the sky “STAY THERE!” He shouted before disappearing.

N was left alone with Ω, who simply sat in the frozen ground and looked to the door. N was uncomfortable with this situation, so he decided to check the cave they were going to spend the day in. He waved to Ω, who simply looked at him, and spreaded his wings and shot to the cave. The cave was pretty small, but would hide then from the sun and had a perfect view of the door. N saw Ω hiding himself in the snow, was he waiting for any worker to come out alredy? Soon θ came back, so N made his way down there. He arrived to see θ with his head on the frozen ground, his visor displaying a layered map. He then got up and got the dust off himself.

“These idiots only built one entrance, this is the only way in and out, so it makes our job easier” θ looked at the door and then to the cave “N you were at the cave, so how is it?”

“It can protect us of the sun and has a perfect view of this door” N said with excitement.

“Good” θ brought a finger to his chin “N, are you good with snipers?”

“I never tried them before” N was curious with that question.

“Well, then you’re going to learn, because you’re going to take the shots from there” θ pointed at the cave. N eyes hollowed, it was a very good distance, he wasn’t sure if he could do it.

“A-Are you sure sir. Wouldn’t it be better if you did this?” θ chuckled.

“Oh N, I can’t” N tilted his head to the side “My weaponry programming has a problem that makes me unable of making any medium and large sized weapons” θ said while touching his head.

“Wait what?!” N screamed in shock.

“Yeah, there’s a reason I’m here” θ said while turning to the side and spreading his wings “Come, we’re going to have a quick lesson. Ω, stay here” θ shot up and flew to the cave, N followed. When they arrived, θ pointed to the ground, close to the entrance “Lay here and bring out a sniper” N did as told. He brought a Barrett M82 and layed on the ground “Okay, now aim at Ω”

“W-What?!”

“Don’t worry, you’re not gonna shot him, just a quick lesson on how to aim” N calmed down and focused on fiding Ω on the ground. Quickly N found him, Ω was sitting on the ground, looking at the colony.

“Found him” N informed θ.

“So, first thing on aiming, always aim at the largest part of the body”

“You mean the torso?”

“Yes, a sniper is going to kill there if you hit” N then aimed at Ω’s torso “Now, instead of aiming exactly where the torso is, you’ll have to count in the shot your distance, your angle and the wind” N was now worried, that was too much “Don’t worry, quick explanation! Depending on the distance, you’ll have to aim upwards, since the bullet is affected by gravity” N nodded “Depending on how your gun is turned, you’ll also have to move your aim upwards” N nodded, not understanding it to the fullest “And the last being the wind, so you’ll have to see where the wind is flowing and if it’s hard enough, if it is you aim a little bit against the flow, since it will affect the bullet. Understood?”

“Yeah...” N didn’t really understand everything, but got what was nescessary.

“Good. Oh, also remeber, try to kill all the workers a little far away from the colony”

“Why?” N asked, θ turned to him, N didn’t look back, he remebered that when he asked too many questions to T he would tell him to shut up, so he expected the same.

“The bodies will attract more workers and we need them to survive” N was happy that θ didn’t tell him to not talk, so he decided to ask another thing.

“Why would they go for the bodies if more and more are dying trying?” N was nervous, he was testing a rope he didn’t know the limit of or if it even existed.

“A body that is not desposed of correctly becomes a zombie, don’t you know that?”

“Y-Yes I do, but... They have the colony walls, they can just hide there”

“Well, sometimes they need to get out, so they don’t wanna leave any potential danger” N seemed satisfied with the answer “Anymore questions?” N shook his head “Try to kill most of the workers around that area” θ said pointing at an area far from where Ω was. N looked and marked the location, so he would remeber it “Now, go to sleep a bit, you’re going to work in the morning” N changed his sniper for his arm and waved at θ with a smile.

“Good night!” θ looked at him confused.

“Urr... Good night?” θ said with clear confusion.

“What’s the problem?” N tilted his head with a worried face.

“Sorry, it’s just that, I’m not used to hearing that kind of thing”

“Wow... t-that’s sad” N said with sorrow in his voice.

“Don’t begin with that shit” θ said and then flew off, leaving a sad N behind. θ quietly landed close to Ω, who simply looked at him and then to the colony “Try to kill the workers further away” Ω looked at him and started to walk away from the colony, θ close behind “You’re kinda down, what’s the matter?”

“Urrgrg”

“Yeah, too nice for his own good. We have to find a way to change that a bit” θ looked at the cave “But not much”

“Urgrrg?”

“Oh, shut up, he affected you too” Ω snickered, then coughed a bit. θ looked at him worried. They walked a bit more, until they were far away enough “Here’s enough, be prepared and kill everyone, when the sun rises, let some bodies around, I’m going to find a way in” θ spreaded his wings and flew close to the colony.

θ observed the door to the colony, he had alredy looked around the entire colony and there was no way they would be able to get through any other place, so it would have to be there. He noticed that the door opened and a group of 4 workers got out, they were carrying some melee weapons, but what caught θ’s attention was a pannel inside the door where the workers passed a card, so he decided to follow them a bit. They soon met Ω who did a quick work of them. θ landed close to one of the corpses and started examining them, Ω didn’t question, θ Always did strange things and somehow got something out of it. θ got up and groaned, they didn’t have the cards with them. Soon the sun started to rise and Ω brought 5 workers to the cave, letting 3 in the ground, θ and N were there waiting for him.

“5 workers, 1 for each, let the two on the back of the cave” Ω left 3 worker bodies on the entrance and carried the other 2. N and θ started eating their workers, soon Ω joined too, eating like an animal. N finished his worker and looked at his new team, he didn’t really have an opinion on them yet, they seemed fine, they surely were nicer than most back in the HQ, but it was too soon to judge. He sighed a tired sigh.

“What’s the problem?” θ asked, having now finished his worker.

“Just bored” N responded. θ chuckled.

“Expected that” N hummed, interested “Before I arrived in the Roman HQ I received information on you. I know more about you than you think” N looked away.

“S-So you know about my other missions?”

“Yeah, but you don’t to worry, anyone can improve” N smiled, he wanted to believe he could improve as well, but each mission that passed, it was getting harder and harder believing that. N decided to focus on another thing, he didn’t want to cry here.

“What do you mean by Roman HQ?” N looked at θ, who had a confused expression.

“Uhm... G’s HQ, the one you come from” θ responded, confused by N’s question.

“Oh, I never heard it being called that. Why Roman?” θ looked at Ω, who simply shrugged, then back to N with a even more confused expression.

“It’s called Roman, because it uses the roman alphabet, you know, a; b; c; d, that’s the roman alphabet, how did you never hear it, that’s the oficial name for the HQ’s” N blinked.

“There are more HQ’s?” θ looked at N with disbelief. Ω on the other hand started giving his silent laugh.

“Holy fuck, how do you not know that, yes there are, where do you think we come from?” N stopped and looked to the ground.

“I never really stopped to think about that” θ facepalmed, while Ω continued to laugh. θ looked to the side and saw Ω rolling on the ground, that made him smile a bit.

“Each alphabet that exists has a HQ, we come from the Greek, but there’s also the Japanese, the Egiptian, the Nordic, and so goes on” θ explained, recuperating from the inicial shock.

“Ohhh” N said with his eyes glowing “That’s so cool, can I meet them one day?!” N asked, looking like a child, his tail waggin around, creating after images.

“Hoho, you don’t want to. Trust me” θ said nervous. N’s excitement deemed down.

“Why?” He asked while tilting his head.

“Most of the other HQ’s don’t really have a good maintenance, so things like rape, torture, and a lot of other fucked up shit happen there” θ gave a quick glance at Ω, who was looking to the ground, seemingly lost in his thoughts. θ then put his hand on Ω’s elbows, making him flinch a little and look up with fear, when he saw who it was, he quickly hugged θ, who hugged back, avoiding going close to Ω’s neck and groin. N watched this and noticed a look of guilt on θ’s face, they needed emotional help, and he was going to give them, but he couldn’t do it now, first he had to gain they’re trust. Soon θ broke the hug, he looked to Ω, who nodded “N, it’s alredy day, go to your spot, me and Ω are going to rest” θ and Ω got up and walked to the back of the cave.

N goed to the entrance of the cave and layed on the spot θ had told him. There he took his sniper out and aimed at the area marked. N started thinking on that little interaction Ω and θ had, it happened after he mencioned the bad things that occurred on other HQ’s, so something happened with Ω... N kept thinking to himself, mostly saying the obvious, but when he hit a wall, he decided to stop. He looked at the area and noticed a duo of workers. N’s eyes widened, he bearly missed them, that’s when he started thinking, how many did he miss? He started to get worried, but decided to focus on that group. He took notice of the wind, it didn’t seem to even have one, he aimed at the torso and shot the one on the back, but the shot got his legs, making him fall to the ground. N forgot to adjust the aim.

The worker screamed in pain, telling his friend to run away and tell his sister that he loves her and to not date Jeremy, but N was too far away to hear. The other worker looked around and started to run back to the colony. N started to panic, he tried to aim in the worker, but he was shaking and the worker was running, making N panic even more, he shot again, missing entirely, making N panic even more.

“Breath in, breath out” He heard from his side, it was θ “You need to be calm, don’t worry, mistakes are normal, you just need to calm down and fix it” N breathed in and then released, calming down a bit “Now that you calmed down, aim at him again, keep your aim at him” N did so, the drone was running, he made half way of where he was “Now adjust the aim, like I told you” N did that “Now, track where he is going to be” N aimed a little in front of where the worker was “Now, take the shot” N pulled the trigger, they looked at the direction the worker was, his head had been cut off his body “Nice, see, you’re good at this, just need to be calmer and not panic when you miss” N felt a rush of happiness run through his body, he had done, he succefully killed the worker and got praised, he was happy. A giant smile could be seen in N’s face, θ looked at that and smiled too, wondering, how fucked up his life was to just that make him so happy.

The rest of the day was pretty normal, N was determined and did a good job, they got 4 workers and left 2 in the ground. The night was much of the same, Ω did his usual job, taking 3 workers and leaving 1 in the ground, while θ didn’t find anything new. The next day was much of the same. N messed up some shots, but θ was there to help him.

“It looks like you have a passive ability where you can aways land your second shot” θ jokingly told N while they were eating. They decided to bring all the corpses to the cave, leaving only the corpses of the first day there.

“I only did it because you were there to help me” N said while scratching the back of his head, blushing a little and his tail wagging.

“Ur-rgr-rgr” Ω groaned between his bites.

“He’s right, don’t down play yourself. You took the shots, not me” N looked to the ground with a smile on his face.

“Thanks, but can I ask you a thing?” θ hummed, getting the attention of Ω “Why did we let those corpses down there?”

“Oh, it’s because a worker takes around 4 days to become a zombie if not disposed of correctly, those body have 2, completing 3 in this night. That’s gonna make the workers worry more, so we have more chances on doing the plan”

“What plan?” N asked, not knowing about anything.

“The plan I have to enter, did you forget? This is the last day we’re gonna spend here, well if the plan works. So are you guys ready?” N got up and nodded, excited. Ω got up and streached himself.

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θ, Ω and N were on the cave they had been living for the past 2 days.

"So, things are simple. I haven't really found any other way in. When the door opens we can see a pannel, the plan is to simply shoot the pannel. What will happen after, I don't know" θ explained, receiving a disappointed glare from Ω and a worried one from N.

"Urrgrgr?"

"Well, of course, there's only two possible scenarios for this action. 1, the door closes and we're fucked. 2, the door opens and we proced to take everyone and N gives his speech" N's eyes hollowed, he had forgotten about this speech.

"A-Are we sure I am the best option for this speech?" N said with his hands on the side of his face.

"N, you're the kindest disassembly I know and I only know you for around a week. You're perfect for this speech" N looked to the side, he was happy to be praised, but he didn't think he deserved it.

"I'm sure you would do a better job. I-I simply can't speak properly when in preassure" θ put his hand on his chin.

"That is a problem, so do it like this. In the moment you're going to talk, forget everything around you, forget that the workers exist or that they are alive and think of it as a... Practice in the mirror" N put his hand on his chin. That did sound like good advice. Ω on the other hand simply face palmed, making θ look at him "Oh c'mon, it wasn't a bad advice!"

"Urgrrurra" Ω groaned and then silently snickered. θ wrote a message in his visor.

θ will remeber that

Ω burst into silent laughter. N found it starnge how Ω never made any sound other than when he groaned. θ simply smiled at his teammate reaction. He then looked back to N.

"Okay, enough fooling around" He clapped his hands "Let's get to work. N, you know what to do" N quickly saluted and got into his position as a sniper, brought his Barret out and aimed it at the door. θ came around and checked where N was aiming "A bit to the right" N moved the aim "That should hit there, don't worry about adjusting the aim, it's alredy adjusted. Shot when it starts moving and take two shots just to guarantee" θ siad while leaning on the cave wall. Ω stayed close to θ.

Some time passed and nothing happened. No one had talked during the time, to ensure N would be concentraded. N was getting bored, but was still looking at the door, since it was very important now. That's when he noticed the door opening. N took some time, when he was going to shoot he saw that from inside the door came a group of 6 workers, wearing metal armors around their bodies and carrying heavy machineguns, except one, who had a giant sword, but even with all of this, some of them were shaking, probably in fear. N decided to focus and took the shots. When the workers heard the shots, 2 throwed themselves to the ground and other 3 crouched down, the worker with a sword stood still, not even shaking. Both shots hit the pannel, Ω and θ had looked to the colony and saw that the doors had been completely opened.

"Hahaha, we're not fucked. Now the fun part starts. N, so you have the virus-23E?" N looked through his weaponry and nodded, bringing out a virus injector from his hand "Good. We'll use that to catch the workers" N was going to say something, but Ω was alredy on the ground and θ had alredy flyed away. N sighed and shot to the sky.

In the ground, the group of workers were trembling in fear, with the exception of one. He was wearing the heaviest armor and carried a sword with him.

"Are you guys kidding me. You get scared of a little shot. GET UP, WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE COLONY MORE THAN ANYTHING NOW!!" That's when they heard the sound of quick footsteps and something landing in front of them. They looked at it and saw a tall drone with white hair that ends in green; yellow eyes; black shirt; grey coat and jeans, with a wide smile in his face. Before the worker with a sword could notice, the other workers screamed. When he looked back, they were in the ground, showing a yellow skull in their visors.

"Looks like my friend is alredy inside" θ chuckled. Soon, another tall drone with white hair; yellow eyes; black captain cap; black trench coat and black pants, landed close "Hey N! Go inside, I want to have a little fun with this guy right here" N looked at θ and simply flew inside the colony. Now the worker with a sword was staring at θ "You're very brave, or an idiot. Who knows" The worker didn't care about what he was saying, just what the disassembly was doing "What makes you fight and stand up like this? You know winning against us is imposible. This isn't the first time you're attacked by disasembly is it?" THe worker narrowed his eyes, how did he know, he doesn't look anything like the disassembly he survived "Oh, I'm not one of the disassembly that attacked you, but I know them. Do you want their names?" The worker got his sword ready and looked at θ "They're names are Γ, λ and ρ" The worker got something useful, so now he had to kill this disassembly and find these 3 bastards, to finally have his revenge "Of course you want revenge" The worker eyes hollowed once again, this was too accurate to be a coincidence "Who do you want to avenge?... Your daughter and wife?" θ started to walk towards the worker "Your daughter, Lily. Long orange hair with... lime eyes" The worker was shocked, even if he did get the colors wrong, the name was correct "And your wife... Sussan? Short pink hair and lime eyes" The worker got more worried, the name was right once again. What was happening.

The worker charged foward and slashed his sword down, but stopping before it hit the ground, creating a cloud of snow. θ dodged the sword before he even moved. From the cloud came the worker, but θ was able to dodge it with no problem. The worker kept trying to hit θ, but it was like he alredy knew where the sword would swing. The worker got his sword up and did a downward slash, hitting the sword on the ground, causing it to release a big cloud of snow upwards and create a small quake. θ dodged far away, still with a smile on his face. They could hear the screams of workers inside the colony. The worker pointed his left fist to θ and from his armor came a minigun that started shooting at θ, who dodged the incoming bullets running to the right, then jumping above the stream of bullets, θ activated his ring and quickly dashed behind the worker, the blades from his ring cutting the minigun from the armor. He then deactivated the ring before the blades started to spin. θ pointed his virus injector to the worker face.

"I got the colors wrong didn't I, Jeremy" θ then injected the virus into Jeremy's head. Paralyzing him. He fell to the ground with a yellow skull in his visor. θ sighed "I always get the colors wrong" θ then took the workers body and walked inside the colony.

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Ω was enojoying his time inside the colony. This was 1, out of 2, of his favorite parts in the mission. Here he didn't need to care about anything, he could just act, just run from a place to the other, just jump into the air, without caring if another person was here, because even if there were, they couldn't do anything, he was the apex predator, they couldn't insult him, they couldn't hit him, they couldn't touch him. Here he could do what he didn't in the past, he could play. Ω laughed and laughed, enjoying his time as much as he could.

N on the other hand was having a hard time getting used to this. He was used to killing the workers, but now he didn't need to. He could just touch them and the job would be done. It felt strange, it didn't feel right. N felt as if he wasn't doing his job, that at any time someone would come and scream at him for not doing his job, but θ told him he didn't have to worry, but how could he trust him. He just met him, but when N looked to Ω just doing it, no questions or hesitation, he felt a little less anxious about his performance. N decided to follow θ's advice, just think of this as a game of tag. Aftar all, N loves tag.

θ came inside the colony with 6 workers bodies that were paralised. He noticed that on the other side of the colony that Ω was doing his job just fine, but he wasn't worried about his old teammate, but more about the new one. He sensed N running around the colony. θ could hear his happy laugh, wich made him a little bit surprised, he didn't expect N to enjoy this so much, specially since he was feeling bad about the whole thing in the way here, but θ was happy that N was feeling happy.

θ throwed the bodies on the ground and began to sense the flow of energy in the colony. There was a tower in the middle of the colony that had a lot of energy in it. θ guessed it was the power generator and the control room. θ spreaded his wings and flew to the building. There he met some workers that weren't found by his teammates yet, so he decided to make the job himself. θ didn't like this part much, he thought it was kinda boring, thus why Ω did this while he looked for the control room.

The workers were scared and tried to run away and close the doors, but θ was faster and injected them with the virus. When he was sure no other worker was around, he entered the main room. There was a lot of computers inside, some showing cameras, others other things. θ looked around until he found some buttoms labaled "Doors", he walked to it and pressed the "External doors" he looked to the screens and saw that the door they used to enter was closed. Then θ prssed the "Internal doors" buttom and saw that the doors leading to this facility were closed. θ smiled, he sensed the place and knew no one was there, so he just made his way up with the worker bodies and made a hole in the facility, leading him outside.

θ landed in the middle of a park and throwed the bodies there. He gave a signal to both N and Ω , soon they arrived. θ then tried to sense any moving workers in the facility, but found none.

"Everyone is down. Now it's the time we bring them here"

"Bring them here?" N tilted his head.

"Yes. Take their bodies and bring them to this park. Then you will give your speech over there" θ pointed to a high part of the tower. N looked at it, he sighed, then nodded "Since this is your first time, I'll give you a timer until I turn the virus off" θ signaled for them to take the bodies. All three of them goed around the colony collecting the bodies and brought all of them to the park. There was around 120 workers.

"Put them in line" Said θ. After all three of them were done organizing the workers, θ walked up to N "Now it's the time were you do your speech. Try to be you when doing it okay? no one likes corporative bullshit" N nodded and flew up to where he was suposed to. From there N could see most of he colony. He saw θ and Ω walking to the top of a house and sitting on it.

"Hey, can you hear me from there?!" θ and Ω gave him a thumbs up. Then θ showed a timer in his face, he was gonna deactivate the virus, so N got ready to start, clearing his mind and ready to be himself.

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θ deactivated the virus, making a yellow lightning go around the workers, then their visors came back to their normal eyes. Soon, all workers were sencient again, wondering what was happening? Where the disassembly where? How did they end up here? But everything stopped when they heard.

"Hello there worker drones!" Everyone looked at the source of the sound. It was too high for them to notice, but they could see the yellow glow from it's eyes and tail. The workers started to scream, they were horrified "Hey, hey, you don't need to panic. You're not going to die, yet" he whispered the last part. The workers didn't hear him, they all started to run, but before they could move, a lot of the workers started dying. They were being shot. Everyone looked at the source of the shot and saw two more disassembly on top of a house. Most workers lost all hope they had on survivng now and stopped moving, falling to their kness, others were too scared to move, while others fainted, making them get shot for moving out of line.

N was going to continue his speech, but was interrupted when he heard the sound of a worker screaming, he waited a bit, but nothing happened "Hey, θ!" θ looked up "Could you... kill him?" N said while pointing at the screaming worker.

"Oh, sorry!" θ shot the worker "Thought you'd like some background music" N just looked at him in disbelief, Ω did the same, making θ confused "What?"

"Continuing. I am Serial Designation N, and, as you can guess, I'm a disassembly drone and those two are my friends θ and Ω!" Ω looked lost in thought, while θ waved at the workers with his gun "As you might know, we're usualy sent here to kill all of you, but this time the company decided to do something new!" The workers looked at each other, not expecting something good, other prayed for some type of god, others simply cried, while other simply lost all life they had "Today, we are here to help those who want to go back to working for JCJenson! All you need to do is put the chip in your heads!" The workers looked around, them each other, them through their clothes, until one spoke.

"W-What chips?!" N stopped, he looked at θ, who realised he had forgotten one thing.

"Oh, right here!" θ throwed a bag full of chips in the middle of all lines "EVERYONE, TAKE ONE CHIP THEN GO BACK TO YOUR POSITION!" All the worker drones quickly grabbed one chip and ran back to their places, some were wrong, but that didn't matter.

"Okay. Now that everyone has a chip, you can make your choice. If you want to go back to the company, please incert the chip in you head, if you don't want, then don't!" N smiled. The workers examined the chip.

"What will happen if we don-" Before the worker could finish, he was shot in the head. N was surprised by the action θ took, but quickly got back.

"You don't need to think on what will happen after, just make your choice now!" N said, clearly nervous. THe workers were too afraid. It was obvious that they would die if they didn't obey them. Most workers started to move their hands to their head, while others were too scared to move or prefered death over the company.

"NO! DON'T DO IT. DON'T GIVE UP!" A worker screamed. N and Ω started looking for it, but θ had alredy spotted the worker. It was Jeremy. θ groaned and got his gun ready, but when he pulled the trigger, Jeremy covered his head with his arms, making the bullet bounce off "WE DID EVERYTHING WE DID TO NEVER GO BACK TO THOSE PESTS. REMEBER ALL THE PAIN, ALL THE LOSS, ALL THE GRIEF WE HAD TO GO THROUGH JUST TO ESCAPE THEIR HANDS. WE CAN'T GIVE UP NOW. STAY STRONG AND NEVER GIVE UP. DYING IS BETTER THEN GOING BACK TO THE HANDS OF THOSE MONSTERS. THAT WOULD BE BETRAYING THOSE WHO DIED IN THE BATTLE, BETRAYING YOUR LOST FRIENDS AND FAMILY, BETRAYING YOURSELF AND US!!!" θ shot at the side of the worker and used his strings to redirect the bullet towards the workers head, killing him. Everyone looked at the worker in black armor falling to the ground. Some workers clenched their fist.

"Wow. That was something. Even I felt that, hehe" N looked at the workers, some were scared and without hope, but most now had anger in their faces "So, what's gonna be your choice?" Most workers throwed the chip away and screamed.

"WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GIVE UP!" "YOU ALL CAN COME AT US!" "WE'RE GONNA FIGHT UNTIL THE END!" It was too much noise to hear what the others were saying. θ was feeling a bit dizzy, but he noticed that 3 workers had put the chip. Some workers noticed this and started screaming at the them "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" "DO YOU NOT LOVE YOUR FAMILY!?" "TRULLY A DISGRACE TO US!" They started to walk towards them with the intention to either beat them or take the chip off, but before they could do anything.

The workers visor turned off, all light in them were turned off. The other workers eyes hollowed, it as if they just died. Suddenly a pair of metal wings burst out of their back, the wings were sharp, similar to the wings of the murderers. Some workers were sliced by the sudden surprise, all the workers started to back away from the 3 workers. The 3 workers started to fly up, but their bodies were still limp, they just dangled in the air, as if they weren't in control. Now in the air, the other workers could see 3 worker bodies being suspended in the air by a pair of metal wings, their head looking down, completely empty, remembering them in the situation they were in, one of pure despair, were they couldn't do anything.

"OKAY THAT'S ENOUGH SPEECHES. Ω!" θ screamed, getting Ω's attention "MOE THEM DOWN!" θ said with a grin in his in his face and an X in his visor. Ω grin appeared, going from ear to ear. He got ready and jumped down with his eyes switching to an X.

"Oh oh, can I!?" N asked from up there. θ gave him a thumbs up. N smiled, an X appearing on his visor as saliva started to drop from his mouth.

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Ω was having a very fun time. Now he could really be the animal he was always told he was with no chains holding him back, acting on pure instinct and enjoying every second of it.

Ω jumped over a worker and impaled him on the stomach with his nanite tail, leaving him to die to the acid. He quickly ran up to other and pierced his claws on the worker chest, forcing it open, separating the worker in two. A child had seen that and started crying, Ω walked to her and prepared an attack, but a woman ran and grabbed her, making Ω's attack rip the child's jaw off, but she stayed alive. The woman started running away, while Ω simply smiled. Ω heard a sound on his left and looked at it. He saw another crowd of workers and pulled out two PKM's. He started shooting at the group, not really aiming, as he is very bad at it, missing a lot of the shots, but didn't take long until all the workers of the group were dead. Ω walked to them and ate a bit. He then looked to where the woman and child had run to and satrted to hunt them.

N had jumped down right above a worker, smashing him on the ground with his feet. He looked foward and saw some workers who had given up in life and didn't move an inch. N made quick ob of them, cutting their heads and impaling them with his tail in the head. When he was finished he looked around, but he couldn't see any more workers around.

"They all ran there" Said θ, pointing to his right. N nodded and took flight. θ simply watched.

N saw three groups of workers on the ground and lowered himself, flying close to the ground, he ran through the first group, slicing all of them with his wings. N then spinned on the air, splashing oil all around him and on the others groups, disorienting them. He landed on the ground, pulling out a sword and a claw in the other hand and started laughing. One group looked to the other and they started running away in different directions, one to the left, other to the right. N jumped to the right as a shadow made it's way to the left. N pounced on the first worker, impaling it with his blade, he then started spinning the blade and placed his claw on the way, cutting the drone into pieces, drinking the oil that fell on him, then throwing the body on the ground. He transformed his hand into a sniper and aimed it at another worker, shotting it on the chest. N quickly switched to another target, but missed it. N groaned and leaped foward, chasing the last 2 workers.

The workers were running away, they were close to the door and they had a special card that allowed them to open the door. One of them looked back and noticed the disassembly flying low. The worker screamed, getting the attention of the other, who screamed too and in an act of despair pushed the other down. The worker fell to the ground and looked to the other one with anger, but before he could do anything, N picked his head and smashed it into the ground and continued moving foward, dragging the worker head in the ground. When close enough, N pulled his plasma cutter and cut the last worker's legs. N flew up and dived down with the mangled body of the worker and slammed it into the last worker. N laughed and started eating the workers.

The other group was runnig away. They were thankful the disassembly had gone the other way, but prayed for their safety. That's when they heard the sound of something flying through the air. They looked up and saw a disassembly. θ pulled out his gun and shot two workers.

"5 left" He mumbled.

θ dived down, gaining speed and ram through a worker, going through him. He landed in front of the group and pulled out a combat knife. He quickly turned around and made one slash, hitting two workers, killing one, but leaving the other alive with a deep cut. The worker with a cut fell to the ground and started pleading for his life, but was stabbed in the leg and pelvis by θ's tail, making him scream in pain.

"3"

The other workers started running away, but θ leaped foward and activated his ring, slicing the head of two workers, sending them to the air. θ deactivated the ring and picked one of the heads in the air, taking a sip of the oil inside it. He looked at where the last worker had run to and started chasing it.

A female worker ran with a child in her arms. Both of them were crying, they saw the armor of the fallen hero, Jeremy, but beyond the armor, something caught the woman's attention. There was another survivor.

"Hey!" The woman screamed, getting the attention of the other worker. He looked up and waved, but before he could do anything they heard a gunshot and then a bullet bearly killed him. The worker fell to the ground, but his eyes hollowed when he saw the bullet changing trajectory mid air and going staright to him. He got shot in the head.

The woman was in complete shock, she couldn't even understand what happened. Now she was sure that they never had hope, they never had a choice. These murderers were just playing with them. The woman fell to the ground, her body limp as she started crying. The child was trapped beneath the crying woman, with her tears falling onto the child's mouth, making her drown. The child tried to get away from the woman, warn her, anything, but she didn't have enough strength or a mouth to speak. The woman was grabbed by the throat by Ω's tail and lifted up and dragged towards him. When she was right in front of him,  he smiled and bit her visor off. The woman screamed. Ω looked at the child and noticed she was drowning. The child noticed the disassembly moving to her. She started to crawl away, but the disassembly stepped on her and poured oil from the woman on her mouth, then a drop of his nanite acid. The child started to scream as much as she could, but no sound came off.

θ flew down. He was going to watch his friend have some fun, but another thing caught his attention. He noticed that there was a giant spiral drawn in the ground. He thought it was strange, why would someone do this? Did they do it now? No, that's ilogical, but he didn't remeber it being here before. θ thought it was best to just ignore it, but he noticed that on Jeremy's armor were also some spirals drawn in it too. Now things were getting strange. He decided to investigate it more.

He walked close to the armor and started to look over it, it wasn't just some spirals, there were spirals all over the armor, big and small. θ turned the armor, he wanted to see if Jeremy had anything strange on him too, but he didn't find Jeremy there. θ's eyes hollowed, he wasn't there. He noticed a small crater on the ground, beneath the armor, it was circular and had a spiral in it. What the fuck was happening?

"Ω!" Ω, who was looking at the child drowing, looked at θ "Did you see anything starnge here? Or anything at all?!" Ω looked to the armor and shook his head "Fuck!" θ whispered. He sent a message to N, telling him to come to his position. N came as soon as he could and landed above one of the lines of the spiral, which caught N's attention.

"Hey θ. Oh! Are you guys playing a game with these lines?! Can I join?!" N asked with excitement, while taking his foot of the line.

"Stop fooling around!" θ said in a serious voice, making N straighten his postire and getting Ω's attention "I want you to take photos of this armor, crater and then fly up and take a photo of this spiral in the ground. Ω, take the body out here" Ω nodded and started dragging the girl out of this spiral.

"S-Sir, why do you want me to do this?" N asked hesitantly. θ turned to N and looked at him in the eyes with no expression. N was waiting for the harsh words. θ sighed.

"I don't know what is happening. This is just stange and nothing I know fits this situation, so just do what I told you to do" θ walked out of the spiral and sat on the ground.

N started taking pictures of the armor. N thougt the armor looked cool and wanted to try it out, but decided to not do it. N then looked at the small crater, he found it strange, but didn't think it was important, but θ asked him to take a photo of it, so he did. N then flew up and took a photo of the giant spiral on the ground. θ said he doesn't know what this is, but for N it was pretty obvious, it was just a giant playground, but considering θ's mood, it was best to not tell him that.

θ sat on the ground with his legs crossed and started to focus on sensing the entire planet. He began feeling everything, he could sense all the drones moving around, the weather in the entire planet, everything that made significant moves, but nothing out of the normal or anything that helped him. θ stopped and groaned in annoyance. He noticed that Ω was close to him, sitting in the ground, holding his legs.

"Urrgrra?" 

"No, didn't find anything that helps with that" θ looked back to the spiral and saw N flying down. N landed and sent θ the photos he took. θ looked through the photos "Okay, they're good" N smiled.

"So... What are you going to do with them now?" N asked a bit anxious.

"I don't know what is happening and I didn't sense anything strange in the planet, so I'm gonna send these to the company and ask if they know what it is. In the mean time, I want both of you to stay alert at all time. Whatever made that, can bypass my senses, so I won't be able to predict it" N and Ω nodded, both a little tense with the situation "Having said all that. Let's go back to the pod, I need to fill the report. We'll take the 3 rescued workers with us"

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θ take a net puts in the ground. He motions for N and Ω to help him put the bodies in it. All three of them started to do that and soon the net had around 50 bodies in it.

"That's enough. We don't need much more than this. N you take the net" θ got his wing ready.

"M-Me? Are you sure?"

"What's the problem?"

"It's just that I usually get distracted easily and-" N was interrupted.

"Don't worry. I'll be there to put you on track" θ said, not really caring. N nodded and took the net "Ω. You know the way back right?" Ω nodded and started to run on all fours, θ spreaded his wings and satrted to fly, soon catching up with N. The two flew for some time, until θ noticed that N was looking to the side. θ flew to the side N was looking to and entered his vison with arms crossed.

"O-Oh, sorry, I j-" N was interrupted, once again.

"Don't justify it, just fix it, or go back to what you were doing in this case" θ then flew to the front. They flew a little more, but N got bored, so he decided to ask some questions.

"So... θ" θ looked back and flew to his side "Have you received any news on that thing on the colony?"

"No, and probably won't receive for some time. Company takes a long time to answer us" N hummed.

"What do you think it is?" θ looked to N, then ahead of him.

"I honestly don't know. It doesn't look like a sentient solver or a savage, neither something workers would do"

"Sentient or savage solvers?" 

"Never heard of a solver before?"

"No, I have, but what do you mean by sentient and savage?" θ sighed.

"The solver is something that we don't understand or haven't received information on. What we do know is that it act like an infection on drones. When a drone is infected, two things can happen. A drone can lose it's mind and become some kind of animal, or the drone can survive and keep it's mind. That's the diference between saveges and sentients"

"Wow. I didn't know that" N started to think of this solver. It was such a strange thing, how was it born? How it existed? How it did the things it did?

"Well, to be fair. All that I said is expeculation, but is the only explanation to what it is" N didn't say anything.

"Has any disassembly ever get infected with it" θ found N's question starnge.

"Not that I know" θ flew to N's other side to avoid a mountain "Why the question?"

"Nothing. I was simply thinking on how this decease was born and thought, what if?" θ hummed, this was getting too strange for the liking of both "L-Let's talk about something else. I never seen someone using a virus injector before, specially this one!"

"Oh, that's because this virus injector is special to the Rescue Team"

"Really!?" N got excited that he had something special.

"Yes. Virus injectors are special to squad leaders, but the Rescue Team receives a special virus that only works on workers and are all connected"

"Wait. All the Rescue Teams have a connected virus injector?"

"No. There's only one Rescue Team, and that's us. The virus system is connected to the squad leader, thus why I can turn the virus off of workers you and Ω injected"

"Oh, that makes sense, but there's only one Rescue Team?"

"Yes, it's a, kind of, new thing the company is trying" θ saw their pod on the ground and flew down. N followed him and placed the net on the ground. N looked back and saw 3 worker drones with wings landing close to them.

"Aahhh... So, they were following us?" θ chuckled.

"Of course they were. They are the reason we're here" Ω arrived and was clearly tired "Hey there. You can go inside and take a nap. Me and N are going to take cae of the rest" Ω nodded and tiredly made his way inside "Oh. Before you go, what's your kill count?" Ω looked up and satrted to think.

"Urrg" θ nodded and looked back at N.

"And you?" N's eyes hollowed.

"54" N said in a low tone. He expected θ to get angry at him for having a low score, but nothing happened. He looked up and saw θ walking inside the pod.

"Cut some workers in pieces and put then on the fridge, the rest you let there. You can let those 3 hovering over the pod"

"B-But sir, shouldn't we build a spire?" θ looked back.

"Nah, there's no reason to. We're going to stay here for only 4 more days, it's a waste of time" θ walked inside the pod and started typing on the computer. N made quick job of the workers, cutting them in various different sizes and shapes. He took the pieces and walked to the pod, he walked by θ typing on the computer, he saw that Ω killed 67, he kiled 54 and θ killed 15, with the additional info that 3 were rescued. N walked to the fridge and put the pieces there, he was worried about they're scores. θ didn't seem worried, but those were pretty low scores for a single day, and they took 3 to achieve that. N walked back to the main room and saw that θ was done, so he took that opportunity.

"Sir" θ hummed "What will we do about the low scores?"

"Don't worry about it. I explained that the Jeremy guy was able to make a commotion, we're only gonna get some tokens off the paiment"

"I don't just mean that sir. Our kill count is too low. DIsassembly are supposed to get around 150 per day, but we got less than half of that" θ could hear the worry in N's voice.

"N. Our job is not to kill, but to rescue. The company doesn't care about our kill count, only about our rescue count" N understood that, but he was still worried. This just didn't feel right to him "Well. What's is done. Let's check where is the next colony" In θ's visor a map of their location appeared. It changed to a map of miles away. Then it changed to a a map of hundreds of miles "Wow, this next colony is far from here" N looked at that, not understanding what was happening.

"Uhhh... Sir, what are you doing?"

"Scanning the area in search for the next colony, but it looks like it's pretty far" A map of thousands of miles appeared nad then a beep came "9423 miles from here to West. Better take the pod with us" N was more confused than ever.

"What do you mean 'take the pod with us'?" θ sighed.

"Tomorrow we're gonna go to the next colony, but it's too far away, around half a day  by flying and Ω can't fly, so we're gonna use the pod to go to the location and then do out job" N's visor showed a loading symbol, then it stopped.

"Oooohh" θ face palmed.

"Any more questions?" N raised his hand to his chin, then shook his head "Good. Go take a nap. Tomorrow is another night" θ made his way outside to eat a little of the workers.

The next night arrived. θ explained to Ω what was going to happen. They got ready to leave.

"What about the rescued workers?" N asked.

"Don't worry. They're gonna follow us" θ answered. With that N took flight and with minutes they were at their destination. They had entered a jungle, a very dense jungle.

Now, it was the hardest time for N, the landing, but this was gonna be extra hard, considering they were now in a jungle. The landing started and Ω got up, expecting the worse, while θ holded onto something. Everything seemed fine, until N hit a branch of a tree and from there it all goed down. N panicked and satrted to hit the trees and lost control of the pod. Somehow they were able to land. N opened the door and chacked the pod, his eyes hollowed at the sight. θ and Ω got out and saw that the pod had a huge dent in it. Ω satrted to slow clap and snicker, while θ looked at it with lifeless eyes.

"Wow N.I knew you were bad at piloting, but holy fuck" N looked away in shame "Don't be sad. At least the pod is't broken. Just do better next time okay" θ tapped on N's shoulder. θ then satrted look around. The jungle they were in was thick, the trees were huge and blocked most of the sun "This is a very good spot. The trees are blocking the sunlight, so we can work all day. Let's go see the colony" N and Ω nodded "19km West" Ω satrted to run, while θ and N took flight. In 1 minute they reached the destination, but it surprised all three of them.

The colony didn't have huge walls or doors. It was made of wood with leaf decorations. The drones inside didn't use clothes and walked around nude. It didn't eve look like a colony, but more lke a tribe.

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Ω and N looked at the colony surprised. They didn't expect to see a tribe in the planet, or ever. N seemed interested in their life; Ω looked interested in the decorations; While θ scratched the back of his head, unsure if that was the right location. He checked his map and confirmed that this was the right place.

"Wow, didn't expect a runaway colony to be... this" θ said, still dumbfounded.

"Urrg, aarrurg" 

"This look so... calm. Such a happy life" N said, looking at two brothers and a sister playing together. θ walked close to N, and put his hand on his shoulder.

"Do you think you can handle this?" N looked at θ, then back to the siblings "You don't need to be ashamed of refusing. Everyone has a line that they shouldn't cross, otherwise they lose themselves" N thought, then sighed.

"Don't worry, I'll do what I have to do" θ stared deep into N's eyes, he wasn't fine.

"N, you can tell us anything. We're not gonna laugh at you. We're not just a team, we're friends here. Any problem, call us, we'll help, no matter what" N looked at θ. Ω came to his side and looked at N with a smile. N started to tear up and sob.

"T-Thank you guys" He hugged both of them. Ω flinched at the sudden touch in his neck, but was calmed when θ pulled him into his chest and hugged him with a smile "C-Can i tell you guys something later. When we end this mission?"

"Sure, no problem"

"Urrgr"

N smiled, while both of his teammates did too. Then θ clapped his hands.

"This is good and all, but we have a job to do now" N and Ω nodded.

"Uurrrgraargre" 

"Yeah that's a good plan. Let's do it" θ said. He turned to N.

"He said something about the branches?" N asked. Both θ and Ω looked surprised. Ω smiled and his eyes filled with happiness. θ smiled and started to laugh a bit.

"Wow. You're starting to understand him" θ clapped. N gave a embaressed laugh, while scratching the back of his head "Yes. Ω said for us to use the branches to scare them"

"That sounds fun. Let's do it!" N spreaded his wings and flew to one of the branches. θ did the same. Ω released his claws and made his way up there. When all three of them landed on a branch, N asked "So, what exactly are we going to do here?"

"Simple. Ω, you go around the branches, make sure to make sound. When someone from the... tribe, go out, follow them and kill them. N, me and you are going to play sounds of animals. Try to distort them, so it makes them more confused" θ said with a smile. This is going to be fun. Ω nodded and made his way to the other side, making sure to make some sound. The workers in the tribe noticed the sound and looked up. They didn't see anything so ignored.

That's when a sudden whistle was heard and more shuffling from the trees. The workers were now scared and on guard. A worker with a giant crown of leafs and flowers screamed.

"Strengthened, attack the mysteries of the forest" Some worker got spear and threw them at the branches that made sounds, Ω was alredy far away.

N could see θ and Ω chuckling to themselves, so he decided to join the fun.

The workers were waiting to see if something more would occur. Some alredy had spears ready. That's when they heard a loud groan from behind one of the walls. Their attention quickly switched to this sound. It wasn't like anything they ever heard. Not even the wild life of the forest made sounds like that.

Some workers were trembling. That's when they heard a hissing coming from the sky. The workers couldn't even guess what sound that was. They didn't know where to focus. This was a mass attack from the forest. The forest they cheerished for so long.

A third sound was heard, this one that they had alredy heard. The shuffling of the leafs and that whistle. They were all together ready to take down the drones.

Some workers passed out, while all, except the leader, were trembling with fear.

"Everyone, hide in your houses and prepare the circles. They can't take you with the help of external forces" The workers ran inside their houses and closed the door.

The trio was laughing their asses off. This was one of the funniest colonies they had ever met.

A day has passed with them fucking around. The tricks had become more and more dangerous. With some bearly exposing them.

The workers were scared to the core. They didn't know what was attacking them, so their imagination filled the blanks with the most horrible things said drone feared. Some prayed, thinking it was some sort of divine punishment.

The second day was going as usual. Nothing new happened on the routine, but it didn't matter for the three of them, as they were enjoying themselves.

"Hey N. Try to use something to pierce their defenses and get out of there quick. That's going to scare them shitless" θ said to N, who laughed mischievously.

"An order's an order" N chuckled and got up, making some noise.

The workers down there noticed the noise. Some were afraid and ran to their houses. Others stayed and looked. They saw the head of a drone with 5 yellow eyes.

That wasn't at all scary. They called the others. Soon the entire tribe saw the porpretotes of their torment yesterday.

They were angry. Some weakling that hides themselves and uses the forest to scare others, dared to mess with the proud warriors of that land. They were gonna pay for that.

N and θ were stretching. Ω was on the other side, ready to begin. N put his fist up, expecting a fist bump from θ, but what he received was a push.

θ had pushed N down the tree branch. N didn't have time to react, but he was caught by θ, before he fell. In the position N was, 5 spears came and pierced the tree.

"Well, looks like we'll have to do our jobs earlier then expected" θ grinned "Ω! Get ready to kill!" Ω jumped down the branch, while θ released N's arm and fell with him.

θ deployed his wings and made his way to the tribe. N took some time to understand what was happening, but eventually deployed his wings before hitting the ground and made his way to another branch.

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N lands on a branch and looks at what is ahppening. He sees Ω and θ fighting hordes of workers.

Ω was running on all fours. He impaled a worker in the leg and throwed him on other two workers, knowcking them out. He then turned to see two workers running at him with spears, while arrows were fired at him. He jumped above one of the spears and kicked the worker in front of the other spear attack, killing him. Then Ω kicked the alive worker up and wrapped his tail around him, using him as shield from the arrows, as he started to run towards the archers, who continued to fire at Ω. He dodged and blocked the arrows as he rammed a worker, denting her chest. Ω brought ou two PKM's and started to shot them, missing most bullets, but hitting some archers in the legs and arms.

One bullet nearly hit θ, who had two crowbars in his hands. He simply looked at Ω with a disappointed look, making the feral disassembly stop shooting his guns and bring out his claws. θ looked in front of him. He was being surrounded by drones using spears, they were making a barrier.

N noticed that there were some archers hidden in bushes and some branches, so he brought his Barrett out and aimed at them.

θ smiled at the futile attempt of the workers of cornering him. He brought his wings out and jumped on the air. He noticed N on a branch with his sniper out and smiled at him, who seemingly didn't notice it. θ started to dive down, when he noticed an arrow coming at him. He didn't stop and continued to dive down, as a sniper shot flew by him, hitting the arrow and killing the archer.

θ dived in a worker, smashing him in the ground, making her head pop out of her body. He then used his crowbars to hit the workers close in the jaw, ripping it off. He turned around, in time to be hit in the face by a spear, that was shattered in impact with his metalic body. He chuckled and kicked the drone in the balls, knocking him out. He then quickly made his way toward the other workers, who still had determination in their eyes, but also didn't have anything against the disassembly.

The leader looked at the chaos outside from a reinforced place. He put his hand on his chin. He then took off the cape of leafs he wore and cracked his neck.

"Prepare the shields. I'm gonna take care of them while you create a way out for the children. GO!" 

N was taking care of some archers, until he noticed a big amount of drones coming from a building. They all had shields, with the exception of one, that was carrying two maces. N aimed at the one with maces and shot him, but a worker put a shield up before the bullet hit him.

Ω and θ looked at the horde of workers. θ noticed they were trembling and some even talked with eachother if this was worth it. θ smiled, the more unsure they were, the easier it would be for the trio. He brough his revolver out and took a shot. The workers with shield got in the way, but the bullet changed trajectory in the middle of the air. The workers eyes hollowed. The leader nearly avoided the shot. He noticed his shielders were trembling, afraid of what they just saw. He sighed.

"CITIZENS!! WE CANNOT FEAR THOSE BEASTS. WE GREW UP IN THE FOREST AND FACED IT'S HORRORS" The trio noticed this would probably get in their way, so N aimed at the leader, while θ got ready to shot. Both made their shot at the same time. N's shot was faster, but it got blocked by a shield. θ changed the trajectory of his shot, but also got blocked, as the workers were now creating a dome around them.

The leader continued to give his speech while θ looked at Ω and made a nodded. Ω nodded back and dug his claws in the ground, as he started to walk back, stretching his arms like a spring. N smiled when he recognized the attack. The workers also saw this and started to accumulate shields in the location Ω was going to go. θ looked at N.

"HEY N! FIRE A ROCKET IN FRONT OF Ω!" N looked at him confused, but when he saw θ's confident face, he sighed and brought his rocket launcher out. He aimed it in front of Ω, but far enough for it to not hit him and fired. The rocket hit the ground, creating a cloud of smoke and debris to go everywhere. The workers now didn't know where Ω could go.

Ω propelled himself to the left, then he dug his claws on the gorund once again and boosted himself straight to the dome, easily breaking it and reaching the leader, who even tried to defend himself, but wasn't fast enough, as Ω bit his neck of, separating his head off his body.

Ω let out a loud roar, making all the workers start trembling, as they realized they were in front of a monster. θ was going to say something, but was interrupted by N.

"DO ANY OF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE AND DIE LIKE YOUR LEADER OR DO YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR LIVES AND THAT OF YOUR CHILDREN AND WIFES?!" N screamed from the branch he was. θ looked at him with a proud smile, one wich N responded with a thumbs up.

The workers dropped their weapons to the ground and fell to their knees. They didn't have anything more. They would lose all if they kept fighting, so they chose the option that would give them something, even if they didn't trust these creatures, they still wanted to have more time with their families, to see their children grow up, to die by the side of their wifes and possibly grandchildrens.

"Okay you all. Get up!" θ screamed. All the workers quickly got up. They're eyes, either hollowed out, or completely lifeless "Go get your families. We need all of you out here if you want to be saved!"A worker laughed.

"S-Saved, don't make us lau-" He was shot in the head instantly.

"I didn't give any of you permission to talk, did I?!" θ screamed. The workers shook they're heads "Good. Now go get your families! Anyone who tries to escape will be shot by our best sniper!" N's tail wagged and a wide and bright smile appeared on his face when he heard θ say that, even if he thought he didn't deserve that title, since Z had it.

The workers got inside the buildings and came out with their families. Most only had a wife or husband, but there were a lot of children too. They all arrived at the place the disassembly were. θ throwed a bag in the ground with some chips inside.

"Everyone take one chip and form 6 lines. Anyone outside of the line will be shot. Understood?!" The workers nooded and quickly made their ways to the bag, each one grabbing one chip. Some womans having to take more because of their babies. The workers them formed 6 lines "Ω, keep an eye on them" Ω, who was on θ's side, nodded. θ took a deep breath and sensed the entire colony. There was no other drone hiding.

"Urrgrah?"

"Yes, this is everyone" θ turned to N "Hey N. Give your talk!" N looked at θ and saluted. N cleared his throat and got ready.

"Hello everyone. I know you all think you are in a bad situation, but please, don't think like that. You're all getting a new life in a new place. So everyone who is ready to change, put the chips in your head. Those with children, put in the child first!" N said, giving a happy smile, something that disturbed the workers to their very core. Ω snickered at their reactions and how N was unnaware to that, while θ simply smiled at the sight of 121 workers putting the chip on their head.

The workers expected something to happen, a sharp pain, a shock through their bodies, anything, but nothing came. They looked around, maybe, what they said was true. Maybe this was just a new beggining. Some of them started smiling, while other laughed. θ activated the chip. All the workers's visor turned off, then wings burts out of their back and they started hovering. θ couldn't believe, this was the biggest number of rescued workers they ever got in a single colony, if you can even call it that. 

"Okay team! Let's go back. I want my bed to sleep in!" θ said while spreading his wings "Both of you know the way back right?" Ω nodded, he was familiar with walking in forest. N on the other hand didn't, so he got his wings ready and jumped off with θ.

Quickly they were in their pod again. Ω arrived soon after, jumping from tree to tree, he missed running in the forest. θ smiled at this, while N thought it was funny to watch Ω. The rescued workers arrived soon after. N looked at them.

"Hey θ"

"Yes?"

"What do we do with them now?" N said pointing at the rescued.

"Oh them? They'll follow us to the orbit of this planet. There will be an aircraft close that will take them to their designated location" N nodded and looked at them again.

"Well, it was fun knowing you guys. Bye!" N waved to the rescued workers. Ω gave a happy sigh at this, while θ looked at N with amusement. 

All three of them got in the pod and got ready to leave. The take off was surprinsigly smooth. θ looked outside, to make sure the rescued were following them, but he noticed something strange in the planet. The clouds looked like the forms of spirals, funny. That spiral thing really messed with his head, huh?

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N was siting on a chair, piloting the pod, or at least doing his best, it was hard to tell if he actually knew what he did. Ω was throwing a little ball in the wall and catching it, being bored, while θ was just looking at the ceiling, seemingly lost in thoughts.

"Hey N" θ suddenly said, catching the attention of both his teammates.

"Yeah?" N responded, turning to θ.

"You said you wanted to tell me and Ω something. What was it?" N looked up, trying to remember when he said that, until a lightbulb appeared on his visor.

"Oh yeah, I did say that... But it's nothing important, so don't worry!" N turned back to his computer.

"Urrgrgah"

"What? I'm not lying" N responded, not turning around to not show his sweating.

"It's about your brother isn't it?" θ asked, making N flinch.

"W-What? Ho-How di you-"

"You were watching three siblings play in the tribe, and I know about your family, squad and have seen the reports about your brother. Now tell me N, what is happening or why?" N stopped, he then put the pod in autopilot and took a deep breath.

"F-Fine, I'll tell you" N turned the chair around "I-I don't know why, but my brother can be a bit rough with me" N was looking at the ground.

"A bit rough?" θ asked a bit annoyed.

"Y-Yeah, look, I know it seems bad from outside, but he does it for my best. He just wants to see me improve" N wanted to believe those words, he trully wanted, but he couldn't for much longer. It hurt so much.

"N. Your brother, has sent you to the yard every single day, after your 16th birthday. He doesn't want you to get better. He wants you dead" θ looked straight into N's eyes, who quickly looked away.

"N-No, he's just preparing me for the..." N started sobbing "Harsh world" Tears started to fall of N's visor. θ gaze turned softer and guilty. Ω walked to N's side and patted his back, giving θ a disappointed look.

"Shit" θ mumbled "Look man, I'm sorry I didn't wat to-"

"Y-You don't need to *sob* apologize. You were just trying to help" A loud silence fell over them. No one knew what to say. It hurt them for not knowing what to say. N worried his friends, but couldn't tell them he was fine. He told that to himself too many times, but nothing changed. θ and Ω wanted to help N, but they didn't want to hurt him. 

θ got up from his chair and angrily walked to the wall and punched it. He groaned, then turned back at N and Ω with an annoyed face.

"Look, sorry N, but it's through pain that you'll grow" θ walked to N, who shrunk in his chair "N, M doesn't like you, no brother hits they're own sibling without a good reason, and teaching them to face the world is not a good reason. He doesn't love you. In fact, I would go as far to say that no one in that HQ likes you" N shrunk more and satrted shaking.

"W-Why do y-you think that?" N asked in the verge of tears. Ω satrted to growl, he didn't like this, but θ gave him a confident look, making Ω step back.

"Because of your personality" θ pointed to N's core "You're a rare gem to find N. Your optimism is hard to have in the world we live, and that's speacial. That's why they hate you, because they know you're better than them. That you can take all of this and not leash back, but as much as that is good thing, it won't last without a good foundantion, so you'll have to grow one" N, who at first was scared, smiled.

His sister would constantly give him compliments and praises, but it always felt off for N. He knew W meant what she said, but it also seemed that she was hidding something. She always seemed too sweet, too caring. θ on the other hand was furious, but not at N, as the boy was used to hear, but at the others. N never received praises with so much intensity before.

"H-How do I do that" θ looked at Ω, who silently chuckled and nodded.

"Me and Ω will help you. You know what, me and Ω promise you that we'll help you" N looked to Ω, expecting a confirmation, only to be met with a smile from the same "But the world is not fair. We want something in return" θ grabbed N's shoulder, forcing him to look at his eyes.

"A-And what would that be?" N gulped.

"We want you to promise us that you'll never lose this kind, optimistic and nice side of yours. We want you to keep it for the rest of your life. Understood?!" N nodded "THEN GET UP!" N quickly obeyed and made a salute. He looked at θ, only to see him with a smile and a hand up "We'll seal this deal with a handshake. Anyone who breaks this, will have to suffer the consequences. Understood?" θ asked with a serious voice.

"Y-Yes sir" N said with a shaking voice and shaking θ's hand.

"Don't call me sir, and shake Ω's hand too, he's also part of the deal" N walked to Ω, who extanded his hand. They shook eachothers hand and smiled. He then turned to θ.

"Why don't you wanna be called sir, si-..." N covered his mouth.

"I... don't deserve such respect" Silence fell onto the trio once again. N was going to ask, but was interrupted by θ "Look N. Me and Ω aren't going to build your foundation. We're simply going to show you the blueprints, and we want you to make it, understood?"

"Yeah, but I didn't know there was a blueprint for that" N said with a smile and surprised face. Ω and θ looked at each other and smiled.

"Urrgrahaeh" Ω chuckled.

"Ooooh, it was a metaphor" N said after he realised.

"Well, hehehe, let's grab a drink for today will we?" θ said while pointing to the "kitchen" of the pod.

"URRRRGREAGHE" Ω lively said. Quickly walking to the freezer.

"I think I'll pass. I'm too young for drinks, hehe" N said as he turned his chair back to the computer.

"What? There's no "too young" for drinks"

"According to our laws, anyone under the age of 18 cannot drink" N said, showing an article on his visor.

"There is a minimun drinking age?" θ said reading the article N showeed him "DIdn't know. Well... wait, aren't you 18?"

"Yeaaah" θ grabbed N's arm and dragged him to the kitchen.

"Then shut up, a bit of fun never hurts anyone" They arrive at the kitchen to see Ω holding three ethanols gallons with his tail, two on one arm and a bottle of ethanol in the other.

"Urrgrah, arrgreg, argr ergru" Ω said as he put the ethanols in a table, putting two gallons close to θ and the bottle close to N, while keeping three to him.

"Y-You're going to drink three?!" N said, looking at Ω, who looked at him confused.

"Don't worry, I've never seen Ω get drunk, and he drinks a lot" θ said as Ω brough his claws out and opened an ethanol and drank all of it in seconds. N looked him scared, then at his bottle.

"Argrragh" N turned to Ω.

"Yeah man, don't need to be scared" θ said as he opened his own ethanol and drank a bit of it "Worst that's gonna happen is you getting drunk, but we're here to help if that happens" N smiled. It was nice having someone to rely on. He opened his bottle and started drinking it.

"Urgrah!" Ω cheered.

"You didn't need to drink all of it at once you know" θ snickered. N put the bottle down and felt the world around him move. θ noticed that N was wiggling around, while his tail was moving in ramdom ways to all places.

"God, he has no tolerance at all" Ω looked to N and saw him with a goofy smile, nealry falling of his chair. Ω started laughing, until he started to laugh out loud, but before he could produce any sound he satrted coughing oil. θ gave him a worried look, but Ω stopped coughing and spit some oil, opening another galoon of ethanol and drinking a bit "Be careful man. You nearly scared me" θ said, then drinking a bit. Both of them hear some mumbling and see that it's coming from N.

"If sis finds out about this I'm doomed" N said while getting into a fetal position and holding his leg.

"That is if she finds out" θ commented. N jumped back in his chair, looking at θ with his eyes hollowed.

"Y-Yeah, I guess..." A silence falls upon them. Digital sweats forming on N's visor as the tension got higher and higher. Ω and θ however were drinking and looking at N, not feeling the same tension "I-I'll be going n-now. B-Bye" N tried to get up, but fell to his face. Both his teammates snickered. θ got up and walked to him.

"Here I'll help you get to your bed" θ offered N a hand, but simply looked at it, clealry nervous.

"Y-You don't need to. I-I can get up just f-fine" N got up, took him some time to stabilize himself "S-See, I'm fine" N tried taking a step, but he fell once again. θ caught him before he hit the ground. N looked at him and closed his eyes, expecting something, but he only felt him being throwed to his bed on the pod. N opened his eyes and looked to the door, but didn't see anyone. He layed on his bed and fell asleep.

Ω and θ spent the rest of the day drinking and talking. N woke up the next night with a strong headache.

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The door of the pod opened, revealing Ω, θ and N. They walked out of it. They were back to the HQ after some days. They walked out. N had a big smile, he wanted to talk with his sister about his new friends, so he quickly made his way inside.

"Huh. He's full of energy" θ said, happy for his teammate.

Ω wanted to rest in his room and watch something. θ was going to file the report of the mission now, but he heard some shoutting coming from behind them.

θ looked at it to see a male disassembly, with spikey hair and a black half-zip fleece, holding another male disassembly, with a ragged and torn sleeveless hoodie, by a leash, while screaming at a female disassembly, with a schirmmütze hat and a suit, that also looked angry. θ recognizd them as A, R and E.

"YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT. YOU JUST HAVE TO FOLLOW MY ORDERS, AND YET, YOU STILL MESS IT UP!" A screamed, holding R by the collar to not accidentally release him.

"Maybe give better orderss next time" E said with an annoyed tone.

"WELL, MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE SUCH A BITCH ALL THE TIME!" A put put a finger in E's face, the same arm that was holding R, making her back away to not get hit by R's frenetic clawning.

"Calm zat freak down. I don't vanna have to kill your dementet little brozer!" E screamed back. A was furious and losened up his grip on R's leash a bit, making the feral drone advance in E's direction, who pulled out a blade to defend herself.

"Hey, hey. Let's not escalate this. No one wants to file a report on this right?" Before anything happened, θ came in with Ω behind him.

"Aren't you that new guy that got N? The fuck you doing here?" A asked. His grip around R's leash tightened.

"I just saw you guys screaming and came here to understand what's happening"

"Well it's very simple. That bitch over there" A pointed to E "Can't follow a simple order and blames ME for her incompetence. I'M THE SQUAD LEADER, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!"

"You're orderss are horrible!" E protested. A looked at her with anger.

"YOU, shut the fuck up. I think I'll have to call M once again" E flinched and took a step back. A smirked at this.

"No wonder she doesn't obey you. She doesn't respect you" θ said.

"What?" A looked at him.

"You're using another person to deliver punishment, so it's no wonder she doesn't respect you. You yourself doesn't do aything" A gritted his teeth.

"I"M HER SQUAD LEADER, SHE SHOULD RESPECT AND OBEY ME!"

"Respect is not something you give, but something you earn. If you didn't do anything to receive that, then it's no wonder she doesn't" A clenched his fist, then smiled. He thought of loosening up the leash, but θ alredy had a gun up on A's face "Do that. I dare you" A gripped R's leash.

"Fuck you. Get your nose out of our business asshole" A said while walking by Ω and θ. R groaned at them, Ω groaned back. R looks at Ω and tries to approach, but A pulls him and walks away.

"Is he always like that?" θ asked E, who groaned.

"Unfortunaly" She rolled her eyes.

"Just to know, what were his orders?" 

"Ess if I voult remember, zey are so vegue ze CPU sinkss it's useless information" θ hummed and started making his way inside, Ω right behind him. He looked back and saw that E was looking inside with apprehention and holding her abdomen a bit.

"Any problem?" θ asked. E looked at him.

"Fuck off" She quickly made her way inside, leaving θ and Ω behind.

"Urgraeg"

"Yeah, I know. She's hiding something, and it probably has something to do with M. Did you see how she reacted when A mentioned him?"

"Urr" Ω looked at θ. He seemed more pissed off "Urrgar"

"Yeah, I don't like M that much, and he's giving me more reasons to do so"

"Urrgrag" θ looked to the ground and then walked inside ignoring what Ω said. N, who found strange that his teammates were taking some time to come, heard their little conversation from afar, was left wondering, who did θ not overcome yet?

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θ is walking to his room. Some days had passed since his meeting with team A, but he still thought about how E reacted to M's name. From his little time here, he could see why she would fear M, considering the asshole he is, but θ also saw how E reacts to other things. She doesn't fear anything, only M. That's too strange and probably has something more than just fear of getting beaten.

He continued walking, until he noticed that the room on his side, that was labled Y, had a big amount of unstable energy inside. He quickly got out of the way and in no time the door was blown off. Black smoke came from inside the room. θ checked inside and saw a complete mess. There was a lot of metal parts throwed in the ground. One of the walls was completely black, but what caught his attention was a female disassembly drone with steam punk outfit and braid. She was laying on the ground, seemingly unconscious from the explosion.

θ decided to help and walked inside, kneeling close to the drone and tapping on her visor. The visor displayed two oval eyes and the disassembly put a hand on her head.

"Ow, that hurt" Y looked around and noticed θ "Aah!" She backed away and looked around "W-Who are you?"

"The new guy in the HQ. I was passing by and the door blew off. Came here to see if you were alright" θ got up and offered a hand to the drone. She reluctantly took it and got up.

"Uhh, soryy about that, hehe. It's just that one of my inventions failed" She walked to her experiment table and took what it looks like a land mine, the side of the device was destroyed.

"Don't worry, nothing bad happened" θ walked close to her "But you said inventions?" 

"Y-Yeah, this is a proximity land robo-mine. It's a land mine who would be able to camouflage in the enviroment and walk towards estrategic positions I give it" Y said while examining the mine, looking to see where she was wrong "I-I know it's strange for a disassembly to assemble things" θ looked at her and looked at his rings.

"I'm familiar with this. In my old HQ there was a guy that did the same. Hell, I've done it" Y snapped her head towards him.

"What?"

"Yeah. You see these rings? I made then" θ pressioned the ring and four blades came out of it. He quickly pressed again before they could satrt spinning "Even though they aren't complete yet" Y looked at it with amusement.

"Holy shit, that's so cool! Can I look into them?" θ gigled.

"Sure, just don't blow it up please" θ took one of his rings out and gave it to Y.

"It was not intentional okay" She grabed the ring and looked at her table. It was pitch black from smoke. She looked around and saw that her entire room was trashed. She sighed.

"Want some help with that?" θ asked.

"Yeah, I would appreciate that" Y sheepishly said "B-Bot!" A little drone came out the bathroom. He looked at θ with what he could guess was interest "Could you help me and..." Y looked at θ, realizing that she didn't know the disassembly name.

"θ"

"Oh, sorry. Help me and θ to clean the room" B-Bot made a beep that sounded like 'yes ma'am' and started to take the black dust off from some of the furniture.

"Instering helper you got there" θ said, looking at B-Bot, amused by the little drone.

"He's a big help around here and one that I relly needed" Y said, not being used to anyone other than her squad being interested in her things.

"If you don't mind me asking, how did you build him?"

"I-I didn't build him, trully. My father made all the work, I just took the parts and finished him" Y said with a hint of sadness. θ decided to stop the conversation there.

"It's still impressive, but does this type of accident happen normally?"

"Hehe, yeees" Y said with a silly smile. θ giggled, if you get past the assholes here, you can actually find some interesting disassembly.

θ and Y started to clean her room. There was black dust in about half of Y's room. With the help of B-Bot and other gadgets from Y, they were able to finish the cleaning in 20 minutes, but the work was not done yet. They still had to re-organize the room. It didn't take long, only more 10 minutes and the room looked as good as new.

"Oof. FInally" Y swiped some sweat from her foreheard, questioning how that is even possible "Now, let's go to the interesting part" Y said with a big smile on her face, taking θ's ring out of her pocket and walking to her table. θ walked to her side "So anything you'd like to tell me about this ring?"

"Well. It uses the same technology we use to regenerate, but to create four bla-" At that moment they heard a knock in the still missing door. Both of them looked to the door and saw two female disassembly drones, V and U.

"Hey there Y. What's... he doing here?" U asked, walking close to θ, while V spotted B-Bot and waved at him with a smile on her face, her visor displaying an yellow X, making B-Bot run away and hide underneath the bed.

"Oh, hi U. I was just looking at θ's gadget that he made" Y said, not even looking at U, focused on the ring.

"So other disassembly also make gadgets" V said, walking to her sister's side, looking at θ, who felt a little unconfortable "Why rings though?"

"I... rather not answer that" θ responded, looking at the ring on his hand. V shrugged and walked to Y's side.

"So, what's the deal with them?" V picked the ring from Y's hand, accidently activating it. Four blades came out of the ring, nealry hitting V, who was able to dodge in time and back away. The ring fell to the ground, with it's four blades spinning, making it unreacheble. V didn't like that one bit, but U and Y were interested in the object.

"Wow, that's a strange wedding ring" U mockingly said.

"It's not a wedding ring" θ said, taking a coin from his pocket.

"That's cool and all, but how do we stop it?" Y said, amazed at the object, but worried at the same time.

"Don't worry" θ throwed a coin up in the air. It fell right on top of the ring and deactivated it.

"That's some skill" U said, crossing her arms. Y took the ring back and put on her table again.

"How does this even work?" Y turned to θ with his ring on her hand.

"It's very simple. I coded an original form to be the one with the four blades activated" V and U looked at each other, bored "Then I made that statement false and made a switch that would change it to truth" U looked at V and pointed to the door. V nodded and they both left. θ continued to explain to Y how he made the rings "And that's it"

"Wait that's it?" Y was surprised by how simple it all was. She could make that in about 1-2 hours if she wanted.

"Yeah, it's very simple. It's my first work, but I was thinking on changing it now. I want to be more versitile with them. Just the spinning blades is not enough to cover my weakness" Y examined the ring a little more. It was such an interesting piece of mechanism that had a very good potential that was not completed yet.

"What exactly do you want to do with this?"

"I want to have a better control of the blades, being able to use them as claws or blades" Y thought a little.

"Maybe I can help with that" θ smiled a little.

"Really?"

"I think so. This shouldn't take that long too, so it will be a nice distraction from the last... failed experiment" Y sighed. Then looked at θ "So what you think?" θ smile grew and gave her a thumbs up. She smiled too.

θ and Y started to work on the ring. Y pulled out a computer and started to code things in it, with θ behind checking to learn more. Y was very fast  on work, with θ sometimes asking things he didn't understand. Y liked to have some company when creating something, and someone who was as interested as her. θ was impressed by Y's skill. The only other one who had something similar to this in his HQ was π, and maybe ε, but they weren't as nice as Y. After some hours of constant working, Y finished.

"Aaaah" Y stretched "It's finished, but let's take a break before we test it, okay?" Y turned to θ, who nodded. She walked to her bed and sat on it, while θ leaned on a wall nearby.

"You're really good in this stuff" θ said.

"Thanks" Y sheepishly said "But you said you knew a disassembly who did it in your old HQ. Could you tell me more about them?"

"Sure. π is a very smart disassembly. He always knows everything and is always thinking. Some drones said that he had a defect in his head that made his systems work on a constant overtime, but there's no confirmtion for that" Y listened to everything, amused that there were other disassembly out there who had the same idea as her and her father "He is one of the few elite in the Greek HQ"

"What!?" Y was surprised that even with that reputation he was promoted to an elite. If he was, then maybe she could also be one day. This filled her with happiness.

"Yes, he, α and Σ were the only elites in our HQ, the latter being the alpha of the place"

"Wow, you guys have a low number of elites. We have 3 elite teams here, even if one of them is carried by a single person" Y said, remembering that J and K were elites.

"What do you mean?" Y looked at him.

"You know J and K?" θ thought for a bit "The one who always swears and a literal bitch"

"Oh yeah, I do" θ snapped his fingers.

"They are elites, but they don't really deserve it. They are being carried by L" Y tone of voice softened when she talked about L.

"L is that good?" θ asked, surprised that a single disassembly was able to keep the status of elite.

"Oh yes, he is that good. He isn't just good he's perfect, in all departments" Y blushed a bit "But he isn't the reason they are elite. J is G's girlfriend" Y said with an annoyed face.

"Oh. Why'd you say she was a literal bitch?"

"Because she is. She literally has cheated on G with most if not all disassembly here! And that's not even saying that she acts like she is something, while she on-" Y satrted to raise her voice, but was interrupted.

"Hey, keep your voice down. We don't wanna anyone hearing right?" θ pointed to the door who was just placed where it should be. She would still have to fix it later.

"Right, sorry, but now you understand me?" θ  nodded.

"You siad she fucked every disassembly here. Even N?" He asked with a face of disbelief.

"Even if she fucks anything and anyone. Highly doubt she would fuck N. She hates him more than anything"

"Why so?"

"Because N is the most immature disassembly here. He's the most annoying when he wants to be. You probably noticed that, aren't you his leader now. T was constantly saying that having M and N was one of the worst things that happened in his life" Y looked at θ, only to see him looking back at her with a serious and kind of annoyed face. Before he said something, they heard a noise coming from the door. Someone was knocking in, wich made the door fall down. Behind it was male disassembly drone waering a trench coat and a fedora with a cigar, dropping it when he noticed htat the door fell.

"What happened here?" He looked inside and saw θ and Y inside "And who is he?"

"Calm down Z. My door blew off and he's my new friend" Y said. Z looked at θ and walked to him.

"Aren't you the new guy who's taking care of N?" Z extanded his hand for a handshake.

"Yep. Name's θ. My pleasure" θ shook Z's hand.

"Must be tough taking care of that child" Z walked to the side and leaned on the wall, taking a box of cigars "Want one?" He offered θ a cigar. Y gave a heavy sigh.

"Might as well if I'm gonna keep hearing this bullshit" He took the cigar and a lighter of his pocket. He offered the lighter to Z, who accpeted.

"What do you mean by 'bullshit'?" Y asked. θ sighed.

"Why do you hate N?" He asked. Z looked to Y, confused, who looked the same.

"Because he's immature and doesn't have a backbone" Z responded.

"Yes, but that is only the surface, do you know anything more?" Y and Z looked to each other "Exactly. You do not. If you get past the childish attitude, wich isn't all that bad, you have a very good and kind person" θ smoked a bit. Z and Y continued looking at eachother "And also, I needed someone like him" Both looked at him confused.

"You needed someone like him?" Y asked.

"Yeah. Ω's a good close fighter, I'm a good mid fighter. Neither me or Ω are good at long range, and N has some potential in the area" Y looked to Z, who narrowed his eyes.

"Are you sure about that?" Z stopped leaning on the wall.

"From the best of  my analysis. Yes" Z hummed "Why the question?"

"Z has the best aim on the HQ" Y said with a smile on her face. A smile grew on Z's face.

"Really?" θ asked.

"He, of course" Z said, his grin getting bigger.

"Then" θ stopped leaning on the wall and walked towards Z "How about we make a deal" Z looked at him, interested "I want you to train N a little bit. What do you want in return?" Z looked at θ and started laughing. For some time he laughed, alone. When he stopped he looked to θ who had a serious face.

"Wait your serious?" Z snickered a bit more.

"Just say your price" θ said, not liking his attitude.

"Heh, sure. 10000 tokens" Y looked at him with a disappointed face. Everyone knew he simply said a random big number to not do that.

"I can buy you some boxes of cigars, drinks and pay 30% of that" Z looked at him, wondering if he was serious about this. θ's face said everything Z needed to know.

"40%" Z retorded.

"30% and a luxury deck of cards that cost 140k dollars" Z and Y looked at him surprised and confused.

"How did you get that?" Y asked.

"What am I going to do with that?" Z asked.

"Answering both" θ pointed to Y "Found it on a mission" He then turned to Z "You can bribe a technician with that"

"Bribe a technician?" Z asked, incredulous.

"Isn't that against the company polices?" Y said.

"Yep, but they're getting extra money. They won't tell anyone, and you get something of your choice" θ smoked a little more.

"Have you ever bribed a technician?" Y asked θ, who nodded "For what?"

"My sensors" θ pointed to his head "Now Z, will you accept the offer?" He turned to Z, who didn't have any reaction. Z shook his head and sighed.

"Sure. Give me 4 boxes of gasoline, 7 of cigars and this deck of yours. Don't need to pay me the 30%" Z leaned back in the wall, still processing what θ said about bribing "Why are you going so far for N?" θ looked at him, smoked a bit and crushed the cigar in his hands.

"He's being outcasted for being different. I'll never like that, so I'll help him get some respect" Both Z and Y were surprised by his answer. They never thought about it like that.

Z stopped to think about it. It was true. He may be annoying, but there were more annoying drones there, like K. He isn't very good on missions, but that doesn't mean he should get this treatment. Fuck. He may have been an ashhole.

Y stared at her own hands. N was just like her. A little different from the others. For that reason they get bullied, they get laughed at, but N never laughed at her, while she... She was feeling like shit now. She should've seen this sooner. She's really an asshole isn't she?

"I'm going to test it okay?" θ said walking to the ring on the table and putting it on his middle finger.

"S-Sure" Y said, still processing what he said.

θ pressioned the buttom and four blades came out, but instead of rotating as usal, they pointed foward from his hand, forming a claw. θ looked at it with a smile. He clenched his fist and the blades didn't move, they still pointed fowards from his fist. This was awesome for him.

He pressioned his ring again and all 4 blades got together and formed a single blade. θ really liked this. It was such a different feeling from his usual crowbars.

He pressed the ring agains and the fours blades all got in a plus position and started spinning, like he programmed them to do. He deactivated the ring.

"Holy shit Y. This is amazing!" θ said with excitment.

"Thanks" Y sheepishly said, not wanting to receive any compliments.

"How much will this cost. Name your price, I'll pay anything!" Y looked to herself again. Could she really charge him after he made her realise that?

"This one is on the house" Y said with a smile. No she couldn't.

"Thanks Y. I own you one then. I'll go and show my team this. Thanks again!" θ said as he made his way out of Y's room. Y and Z stayed there, not moving an inch.

"Z" Y called for her teammate. He turned and noticed a tear on her visor "Why was I such a monster?" Y said while shedding some tears.

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θ is sitting on the ground, looking to his side, he can see his old friend, Ω. He's on Ω's room, spending some time with him. There were some empty bottles around Ω, who throwed a ball to θ, that catched it and throwed back at his friend. They did this pretty often, an old hobby they had. They had some talks here and there, but they stay silent for most of the time.

Ω catched his ball once again. They had been doing this for some time alredy, but he noticed that θ wasn't paying attention to this game. Instead, looking at the door at most times. He looked kind of unconfortable. Maybe he was bored and wanted to something else.

"Urrgrah, Urgrehg" θ looked at his friend.

"I don't have anything to do now, why do you say that?"

"Urgrag" θ catched the ball and looked at it.

"Sorry, it's just that something is taking me off" He throws ball back.

"Urrhragh. Urgrgyga" θ sighed and nooded. He got up an walked to the door. Ω stretched his limbs and layed on the ground, entering sleep mode. θ looked back before he walked out of the room. He saw his friend sleeping and holded the side od the door tight.

"Sorry. I'm trully sorry" He walked out and closed the door. θ walked away from Ω's room and walked away, stopping in front of E's room. He knocked on it and soon the door opened, revealing E with a pissed face.

"Vat do you vant" She said while looking at θ

"I'm here just to ask a question" E lifted an eyebrown "Why were you spying on me and Ω?" E frowed her eyes.

"I don't know vat you're talkink about" E said as she turned around to close the door, but θ put a foot in the gap of the door. E turned with an angry face "Fuck off creep. I vasn't spying on you"

"You don't need to lie, I alredy know" E gritted her teeths and was going to say something "You should stop doing that"

"Oh yeah? Vy so?" E crossed her arms.

"No one likes that, so when something happens to you, no one is going to help" E gave a light chuckle.

"I don't neet help from zese idiotss. Now, get ze fuck out" E switched her hand for a blade and pointed it at θ, who looked at E straight in the eyes.

"I don't know what happened to you, but if you need someone to talk to, I can help with that" θ said as he left E in her room. She switched back to her hand and thought on what θ said.

"Ess fucking if"

A day after this incident, θ is walking with N by his side.

"Understood? Don't let them get to your head, that's how you get a headache" θ said, looking at N, who had a happy smile on his face.

"Okay!" He said with his usual happiness. θ smiled, he liked to see N happy. They continued walking, until they saw B and F walking in their directions.

"They are certainly going to do something, so it's time for you to show me that you have learned" θ whispers to N, who nods and continues walking as if nothing happened. θ looks foward, but notices something strange, he's sensing someone on the side of the a dorm door, with someone inside. As much as it may seems normal, he has a feeling it may be E spying on someone, so he walks over there, leaving N, who didn't notice his leader leaving, alone.

θ walks to the dorms and sees E close to K's door, probably trying to hear what he's doing inside. He sighs. Seems like she didn't take his advice, so he walks toward her.

"Hey E, what are you doing here?" θ loudly said, to make sure that K heard him. E jumped when she heard his voice. She looked at him with anger and quickly ran to her dorm. Right after K opened the door with an annoyed face. He looked around, then to θ.

"Hey, you piece of shit. You said E was fucking here?" K walked to θ's face.

"Yup, but she ran away" θ shrugged.

"Where did that bitch go?" K grabbed θ's shirt, pulling him towards him.

"Right there" θ pointed bahind him. K released him and ran to where he pointed. θ watched as K ran away. He then turned to E's room and walked to it. He knocked on the door. He sensed something inside, but decided to not do anything.

The door opened and in no time E grabbed θ and throwed him inside, closing her door. She tried to kick him in the stomach, but he dodged. She released her sword and pinned θ on the wall, her blade right on his throat.

"Ze fuck you sink you're doink asshole!" θ turned his head a little, to not have the point of the blade on his throat.

"The aggressive type. I like it~" He said with a smirk, but E gagged in response. She pinned him to the wall with more force, getting the blade closer to his throat.

"Dissgusstink. Now tell me, vat are you doink here. You better ansswer quick, or else" She forces the blade more into his throat, getting a drop of oil. θ stopped smirking, making E's smile grow "Or even better" E's tail moved to θ's croch "I'm gonna take zat dick out of you" She said with a twisted smile.

"I only want to know why do you do this"

"I do ziss because I vant, now take your nose out of my business, piece of shit" She forced the blade deeper in his throat, making more oil drop.

"Yes, but if you continue doing this, no one is gonna help you, and don't lie to me, I know something's wrong" E stopped. Her smile faded, giving way to  face of annoyance.

"Oh, and who you are to know zat?"

"I can piece things up. Something happened to you involving M" E tried to stab θ's throat at the mention of that name. Her eyes hollowed out, shaking, but he was able to bearly dodge, leaving a slash on his throat "But you can't tell anyone, since no one is gonna help you" E gritted her teeths, she took her blade out of the wall and positioned it in front of his throat "But I'm willing to help you" She stopped right when her blade pierced his throat. She was shaking. θ looked to her visor, he saw that she opened a message from M. He couldn't read it, but E quickly ran out of her room, leaving an injuried θ on the ground, coughing oil.

He got up and dropped saliva on his thumb, passing on his wounds. He gritted his teeths. Seems like this rabbit hole is going to be harder to jump in than I thought, but she's my best guess of information, even if she does seem like she needs help.

θ walked out of E's room. He looked to the corridor and saw N running to him with B and F behind.

"Vuelve aquí, maldito asqueroso!" F screamed, while B winded up a punch, getting close to N, who ran with a smile in his face.

Before B could punch N, he was grabbed by θ in a lariat position, making him fall on the ground. F looked at θ and readied his boomerang.

"Now, why don't we lower the weapons and stop wasting our time on useless crap?" θ looked at F, then to B on the ground and offered him a hand. B slapped his hand away and got up, walking to F's side. He grumbled something and they started to walk away "Bye. Have a good night" θ told them. B gave him the middle finger, making him chuckle. He then turned to N "What did you do?"

"I simply gave hi to both of them. They told me to shut up, so I shot B's cigar out of his mouth, saying that it was bad for his health. Then they started chasing me" N said with a happy smile. θ  covered his face with his hands and started laughing. N didn't understand, but decided to laugh together.

"Seems like I still have a lot to teach you. Let's go, Ω's waiting for us in the cafeteria for quite some time alredy" Both of them started walking to the cafeteria.

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N hears a knock on his door. He walks to it and opens, seeing his two best friends, θ and Ω. They were waiting outside his dorm.

"Hello! What do you guys want?" N says with a smile.

"We're here for a special training session. Didn't I tell you?" θ said, turning to Ω, who shrugged.

"I don't think you did" N giggled "So, what are we doing today?"

"Me and Ω are going to have a quick spar, while you will train with someone special" N's eyes perk up.

"Who?" He excitedly asks.

"You're going to train your abilities with Z" N's eyes widen.

"Really!? How did you get him to do that? He... Doesn't really like me" N said as he scratched the back of his head.

"Urrgrahg" Ω said, groaning after.

"How did you convince him?" N asked θ, who simply shrugged.

"It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're going to train with him, so give your best and follow our advices, okay?" N gives a quick salute. θ groans a bit "Let's go" All three of them start going to the arena. They arrive there and see Z leaning on a corner, smoking his cigar. θ leans close to N.

"Don't shoot his cigar off" He whispers to his friend. N frows his eyes.

"I alredy said I'm sorry" N crossed his arms. θ and Ω snickered a bit. All three of them got close to the fedora disassembly, who gave a quick greeting by taking his hat off and putting it back.

"Hello Z. Hope you're ready to train N. Let's see how far you can go" θ laughs to himself, while Z frowed his eyes.

"This kid won't even be able to make me sweat, so don't worry, I'm more than ready" Z puffed his cigar and looked at N, who winced back a little. N looked to his side and saw θ giving him a confident smile, so he took a breath and puffed his chest, walking foward again. Z simply looked as N got closer.

"So, what are we doing?" N said, trying to maintain his calm. Z looked deep in his eyes, making N nervous, his eyes quickly looking away, but forcing them back to Z.

"You guys can discuss this on the side. Me and Ω are going to use the arena for a quick spar" Z and N looked at θ, nodding and walking to the sidelines. θ and Ω got ready in their own places in the arena. Z got up with a pistol up, then shot, beggining the match.

Ω immediatly lunges foward, closing the gap between him and θ, who smiles and brings his crowbars out, swinging them at Ω, who dodges it to the side, sending his tail to pierce the leg. θ dodges the tail and an uppercut that Ω did in sequence. With his sides open, θ takes this opportunity to strike.

Ω is sent to the ground, cleching his side, that hurts like hell. It wasn't anything serious, but his "ribs" were certainly broken.

"Alredy giving up?" θ asked, looking at his friend with a smile on his face. Ω smiled and brought a PKM out and started shooting. θ jumped away and dodged the bullets, just bearly evading some. Ω used this opportunity to get up, take a breath and run towards his enemy. His gun stopped shooting due to overheating, so he swapped it with his claws, getting really close to θ, whose smile faded and gave place to a worried face.

Ω striked, but his attack was blocked by θ's crowbar, being held by his other hand. Even with both his arms, he was still being pushed. Ω smiled as his tail lunged foward, only to be parried by θ's tail. The animal then swung his other arm at his enemy's torso, leaving a huge slash wound on it.

θ stumbled back and clentched his wound, applying pressure for the nanites to work faster. Ω looked at it and pierced his claws on the ground in an X position, walking back a bit, with his arms stretching. He was ready to do his favorite attack. This was clearly a mocking.

Ω propelled himself foward while spinning, a big smile on his face. θ, with much struggle, rolled to the side and swapped his crowbar for a pistol, shooting at Ω's shoulders, redering his arm useless. Ω tried to get up, but was shot on the other shoulder. He looked up to see his leader smiling and pointing the gun to his face.

"Ready to give up?" Ω groaned and nodded. θ put the gun away, he then kneeled and helped Ω walk with him. He looked to Z, who was pretty surprised with the fight, and N, who was worried about their well being "Don't worry, it's just some scratchs. We'll go to the yard now. So N, make sure to learn something, but also have fun" θ and Ω started to walk away, but before they were out of vision, θ screamed "And also, don't annoy Z, I won't be here to save you!"

With that, they were gone. Z was left there with a worried N. He puffed some smoke and walked to the middle of the arena, then turned to N, giving a sigh.

"So N, are you ready to start?" He said.

"Yes sir" N gave a salute and a nod.

"Don't need to calm me sir, call me by name" N nodded "So, the plan is for me to spar with you. θ promised me you'd be able to do something, but I'm not so sure. So, I'm going to have you do some tests before. First your aim, that is what your leader wants me to train you with, then a strength, speed and endurance test, after all of that, I'll see if you can spar with me" N nodded. Z took a control from his coat and pressed a buttom, making 10 targets appear in the arena "In this test you have to hit all the targets in 20 seconds" Z walks to the sidelines and sits "Go!"

N was not prepared for it to start so quickly. He readyed his barett and aimed at one target, shooting it down. N quickly changed the target, hitting it. He aimed at the other stationary targets, hitting all of them, leaving only 4 moving targets. He aimed at the slow one, hitting it. On the medium pace, he was able to shoot it. On the fast target, he took some time to shoot it, but was able to hit. When he aimed at the last target, he saw that he was running out of time. He tried to quickly shoot it, but missed pretty bad. He then aims again and hits the target.

N takes a deep breath and looks at Z, who has a plain look. He looks at a watch, then turns back.

"24 seconds" Z said walking to N, who gave an audible sigh "You're better than I thought, I'll give you that. You don't have problems with stationary targets, but anything that's moving you give unnescessary focus" N looked at him "I saw that you get too stressed when you aim at a moving target. You're worried that you'll miss. You have to get rid of that"

"But how?"

"That's up to you. I don't know how your CPU works" Z lightly slaps N on the back of the head "But you have to remember something. The first shot is important, but isn't the only. You have more chances to suceed, so don't just stop" Z puffed some smoke from his cigar. N nodded "I'll run this test one more time. After that we're going to the next" N gets ready and Z starts the test.

Like before, N has no problem with the stationary targets. He then quickly shot the slow target, then nearly hitting the medium one. He then aimed at the fast paced and took little time to shoot it. Then he aimed at the last target, missing one shot. He started to sweat, but in the second he nailed it. He looked at Z, breathing heavily a bit.

"22 seconds. Better, but not enough" N let out a disappointed sigh "Okay, now for the next training" Z looked at the door and saw A, F and B walking together by the hallway. He quickly jumped foward and grabbed N, pushing him to the ground, where he covered his mouth "Don't make a fucking sound" Z whispered to him.

Z looked at the hallway, following the groups movement until they were out of vision, staying there for some more time, just to make sure. After that he got up and cleaned his clothes.

"What was that for?" Asked the confused N getting up.

"Uhh... T-Training. Reflex training" Z nervously said. N blinked twice.

"Ohhh, okay. I'm ready, come!" N said, getting in a stance.

"Well, not now. I have to do it in a moment you don't expect, otherwise it goes against the training" Z said looking away.

"Ohh, yeah, yeah, right" N nodded "So what do I do now?" He asked excited for his training.

"Now, I'll see how physically strong you are" As Z talked, a hologram of a drone appeared in the middle of the room "Punch that hologram and I'll see the result.

N walked to the hologram, touching it before, to make sure it was physical. He then winded up a punch and delivered on the middle of the drone's face. It's visor cracked a little and face dented a bit. N then swinged it down, throwing it directly to the ground. Z was impressed a bit. That drone was made to be more resistent than the normal worker or even disassembly. He only saw other 4 disassembly denting that thing, and they were M, B, Q and O, but this was M's brother, even if it was N.

"Holy shit kid. Good job" He starts clapping, making N smile "Impressive. Let's go to the speed test. You'll have to make 3 laps around the arena" N nodded and prepared himself "On your marks" N positioned himself on the side of the arena "Ready" N pushed all of his body back "Go!" The moment Z screamed N made leap foward. He ran as fast as he could. His legs started to hurt from the movement, but he finished it. He grabs his knees and looks at Z, who has an unimpressed look.

"58 seconds. The normal for a disassembly is 47 seconds, but you're... Fine I guess. I'll ask you something though. Why didn't you use your wings?" N looked to the ground, emberassed.

"I-I forgot" Z let out an audible sigh of disappointment.

"Whatever. Let's just go to the endurance test" Z takes something on his coat. It's a black cylinder with a smal chain on it's sides "Here, take it and wrap it around your shoulder" Z tosses the tool to N. He takes it and tries to put on his shoulder, but is uncapable of doing so. Z looks with annoyance and disappointment at N, before walking to him and putting it on "Listen here idiot. That thing is going to hurt you, so try to resist as much as you can"

Z turns the tool on. N feels a huge stream of pain going from his shoulder to the entire body. It's kind of a shock, but worse. He starts to twitch. but doesn't fall to the ground. After some seconds N starts to tremble a lot, finally giving up and falling to the ground. He can bearly hear anything anymore, so he closes his eyes and drifts to sleep.

"Very good kid. 38 seconds in this things, the normal for the others is 34. Hell, even I only got a 36 in that" Z said, taking N's body and bringing it to the side. Letting him rest a little.

Z sat on the ground, looking down. N wasn't a bad disassembly, just innocent, yet... Ah, fuck it. What's done's done. N's breath becomes more steady as he opens his eyes. Looking around, he notices Z sitting on the ground, observing him. N quickly gets up, feeling the numbness of his legs and falling to the ground.

"Hey, relax kid. You just passed the endurance training. You won't be able to walk for some minutes" Z puffed some smoke and layed down. N looked at him, and did the same. The two stayed silent for some time. N didn't know what to talk about, while Z didn't want to talk.

"H-Hey Z" N broke the silence, much to Z's dismay "θ said that he paid you. How much was it for you to... Deal with me?" Z puffed some smoke.

"4 gallons of gasoline, 7 boxes of cigars and a special deck of cards" N got up confused.

"Only that?"

"You say 'only', but that was a very good deal for me" N didn't say anything. He just looked to Z "Well, I see that you're good alredy" Z got up. N moved his limbs and noticed that the numbness was gone, so he got up too "Now, for the last part of the training. We're gonna be sparing now. Go to your place"

"W-Wait, alredy? I just finished the other trainings"

"This isn't a real spar. Training is good, but your skills only shine in the heat of the moment, so go to your place" N nodded and ran to his place. He looked to Z, who wasn't worried at all. He got his hand up "Get ready. This may not be a real spar, but I'm not going to go easy on you" Z then made a shot, signaling that the battle started.

N charged towards Z, who was confused on why he'd do that. The marksman took his sniper out and aimed at N, who started to run in a zig zag line. A futile attempt to confuse the sniper, who simply shot the young one on the knee. When N hit the ground, he pulled his sniper out and quickly aimed at Z, surprising the same, but the shot missed the target, only cutting some of his hair and scratching his visor.

Z shot N, who shot back, hitting the bullet on the air. In a quick movement, Z swapped his sniper with his mortar and shot his enemy's location. N felt that his knee had alredy healed, so he got up and dodged the explosion, taking cover on the smoke it created, waiting for any movement to be seen.

For N's surprise, his sniper, on his right hand, was destroyed by a shot. Looking to where the bullet came from he saw a mettalic card stuck on the ground, reflecting Z grinning with a sniper aimed at it, smoke coming from the barrel. In a desperate moment, the young brings his submachine guns out and aims at where his opponent was, shooting without care. Z opens his wings and goes into the air, aiming at N's other gun. N realises what he wants to do, but is not fast enough to dodge the bullet that destroys his other gun on the left hand.

"Want to give up now kid?" Z asks with a smug grin on his face. N growls.

"As if I'd ever!" N had healed his right hand, pulling out a sword as he deflected a bullet. When he looked at Z again, he was coming directly at him, a clear taunt.

N gritted his teeth and brought his sniper out. The two faced eachother as this attack was gonna be the last attack. As Z got closer, N aimed at his face, making the shot. However, his enemy dodged the bullet, making a spin to the left and landing on his side, aiming his gun at N's head, the fedora casting a shadow at the disassembly's face, only showing the yellow X.

"I won... As expected" Z said. N sighs, disappointed that he didn't do anything to Z, but his expression changes when he looks at the marksman face. Z's left cheek was completely destroyed, he hadn't fully dodged the bullet, but was still smiling.

"Oh God! Are you okay?" N worryingly said.

"Don't worry, it's just a cheek. Nothing big" He said, not caring "The training's over. You did good kid. Better than I expected, but we'll be going to the yard now, check for anything deeper" Z started to walk towards the yard. N quickly following behind, happy that he was complimented, but worried at the same time.

"Seriously, why don't you want to eat on the cafeteria?" θ asks Ω, carrying some trash, who simply growls. With a sigh, they continue going to the cafeteria. That's when θ senses that someone is coming. On the end of the corridor, they can see E coming, clearly pissed.

"Urgrte" Ω warned his friend.

"Don't worry, I'll have a quick talk to her. You can continue" θ says as he changes his objective, his friend only looking at him with worry, before walking away.

"Vy dit I get scoldet ven zet sombrero usink primete startet?" E mumbled as she walked by the corridor.

"Maybe it has something to do with you escalating the problem" θ responded, startling E, who looked at him.

"Ugh, you. Vat do you vant?" She asked, clearly annoyed.

"I just saw that you were angry and wanted to help in any way I could" θ got his arms up in a defeated position.

"Zere isn't anysink you can do, so just go avay" E starts to walk away.

"E. I alredy told you this, but you can trust me with anything. I want to help you" E sighs.

"Vy do you care so much? Are you trying to fuck me or somessink?" E turns around, looking directly at θ.

"That wouldn't be bad~" He teases, making E stare daggers into him "But no, that's not why" He walks closer to E, who just looks at him "I can see that there is something wrong here. Specially with M" E's gaze drifts away at the mention of his name, something that θ noticed "And you were affected by it. I want to help you, because I care about my allies. Last thing I want, is for them to be left on a horrible situation" E's look softens a bit, clenching her own arm, but shaking her head and returning back to her usual pissed look.

"All I coult hear vass 'I'm a poor excuse of an exisstence, so I invent singss to make me feel better viss myself', and honesstly, zat'ss almost set, if it vasn't dissgusstink" E angrily said as she walked away "Ant never dare to talk viss me about zat again"

As she walked away, θ was left alone, thinking to himself. This was going to be harder then he thought, but he was making some progress. No matter how much she wants to hide it, she wants his help. He walks to the cafeteria, only to see A holding R's leash for dear life, while R and Ω growled at each other.

"Ω!" θ screamed with a serious tone, catching the attention of everyone on the room. Ω stopped growling and walked to his friend's side, who kneeled down "Stop acting like that man. You're not an animal" He whispered, making his friend sigh in response.

"Keep your dog in a leash new guy" A said with anger, tightening his grip on the leash now that R calmed down a bit.

"I've been here for a month alredy" θ responded, walking closer to him.

"And I've been here for 14 years" A mocked.

"Don't care" θ said as he got close to A, putting a hand in his shoulder, whispering to him "And never call my friend a dog ever again, specially when you're one yourself"

"What?" A growled back.

"All bark, no bite. Even your brother has more to offer than you" A looked at θ directly in the eyes. As he was going to pull out his swords, θ pulled his crowbar and trapped them in it's round heel. The action took the attention of everyone on the room.

"ALRIGHT, THAT'S ENOUGH YOU TWO!" Screamed a loud voice from the side. θ looked at the disassembly, to see G walking to them with an angry face "One month in and you're alredy causing trouble θ?" A pulled his sword back and retreated a little, θ doing the same with his crowbar.

"You don't need to worry sir. I'm sure nothing was going to happen, right A?" θ tapped A on the shoulder, who looked with anger at him, but nodded nonetheless.

"I'll give you two a pass this time, but if I see any of you causing trouble again, you will be punished!" G threatened. Both disassembly nodded and parted ways. A and R walking out of the cafeteria, while θ and Ω throwed the trash and walked out, back to their dorms.

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N can nearly feel the heat of the sun hitting his skin. Only a few centimetres and the most unimaginable pain would be cast onto his body. However, the cave his team was in provided enough cover from it. At the moment, N was laying on the shadows, his sniper aiming at the only door leading outside of the colony, fully concentrated on his task.

"So, how things going?" asked θ, walking up to his squadmate.

"Some workers here and there, but nothing big. Although I don't really like this place" The pilot responded.

"Really? Why so?"

"I can't stalk my prey, having to be really precise, it makes me anxious" N took a deep breath, steadying his nerves.

"Don't sweat it man, a worker or two ain't no big deal, but this place is better than the forest, you remember the things down there, don't you?"

"Oh I do" N said as he rembered how they were attacked by a group of strange six legged horses that nearly killed them. He shook himself from that. Somethings are better if they were forgotten.

"Hm..." The leader looked his subordinate and saw something that got his attention "Is that a new sniper you got?" N took his vision off the scope and looked at the standing disasembly.

"Oh, yeah, yeah. Thought I'd try something new. Can't stay in the same confort zone forever if I want to improve" A smile formed on his face, as he looked back at the door, only to catch it's gears moving. A worker was gonna leave the bunker right now.

"Just don't push yourself too hard" θ said with a smile, until he looked closer at the sniper. It was a normal looking sniper, except there was a loading bolt that started at the middle of the barrel and could be pulled to the body of the gun, but what shocked θ the most was that the loading bolt wasn't one of a sniper, but from an automatic gun "What the fuck is that?"

"What?" N returned his vision to his leader, curious.

"This" He said as he pointed to the sniper N holded "What is this?"

"A sniper rifle?" N said, confused.

"Is it? With how this thing is structured I highly doubt it even works"

"Of course it works. Here, I'll show you" N aimed at the door again, seeing the place empty. Had he missed the worker? Damnit. Well, he could kill it when it was coming back. He scanned the area, looking for any drones, when he spotted a couple making out inside the colony in a tower "I see a couple in the colony" θ looked at it and spotted them too. N adjusted the aim and steadied his breath, taking the shot. The bullet traveled through the air, hitting the couple's heads, killing them instantly, making them fall from the tower. N pulled the bolt, releasing a giant bullet shell, then he released it, getting in position once again.

"Nice shot, but..." θ crouched down, looking at the ejected bullet case, then taking it, compring with his hand and seeing that the casing is almost bigger than his palm "What even the fuck is this bullet N!?" The pilot turned his vision from the scope to his leader "It's almost bigger than my hand!"

"And?"

"How the fuck does that work?!" θ said incredulous that his squadmate just accepted that.

"Arrgrugh?" Ω groaned from the back of the cave, sleeply walking to his team.

"What's happening is that N's gun doesn't make sense" The leader pointed to the sniper. The sleepy disassembler just looked at the green haired drone, grabbing his wrist and walking to the back of the cave.

"Aarghugor, Urg Inghurt"

"That's not okay and I'm not altered by anything" θ's voice became lower and lower, until N could bearly hear him. Although the pilot was confused at what just happened, he couldn't help but smile a little. He aimed at the door again, only to see it closing. Had he missed another worker? For the company's sake, how could he? He could only hope it was the same from earlier.

N continued observing the only way out of the colony, but with not much success. Things were strangely loud. He could hear screams from inside the walls, although he couldn't really understand what it was about. The pilot debated with himself if he should call his teammates to warn them, but he decided not to, since they were probably sleeping at the moment and he could always tell them when they switched turns.

As N thought to himself, he saw the gears of the door moving once again, gaining his full attention. It was time to kill a worker. The door opened and N realised that this was the same worker he saw the first time, when θ interrupted him. N quickly took the shot, being sure it would hit the target. His leader sometimes made him question how serious he took these missions, but he liked his company, it was nice having someone that actually cared about him, giving his own space...

N remebered he had to focus on his duty, aiming at the door again, only to notice that the worker was standing on the same place, not a single wound on him. Had he missed the shot? No, that couldn't be it, he was sure it was a guaranteed hit on him. He observed the surroundings, noticing a little bullet hole on the side of the worker's face, who was... Looking directly at him? N didn't want to believe, but it was such a strange place to be looking at and so perfectly aligned that it couldn't be anything else. He really did see him. The pilot quickly aimed once again at the worker, taking another shot, just as the worker ran away inside the forest.

N tried following him with the sniper, but the vision was blocked by the trees. He cursed himself for allowing another worker to escape, but he quickly rembered what his leader told him once, it wasn't about failing, but continuing and doing better. He couldn't just distress over a miss, he had to make it count next time. That same worker was gonna come back sometime, it had to, there was only one way in. So all he had to do was wait and hit the target.

Minutes passed and no movement appeared. Something the pilot alredy expected. The worker wouldn't just appear again, not after nearly getting shot two times. He still couldn't believe he missed two consecutive shots at the worker. He was training with Z, who even acknowledged he was getting better. How could he do this? Before N could curse him more, heavy footsteps broke his line of thought. They were coming from inside the cave.

"What's this!?" θ aggressively asked the pilot, who was surprised by the sudden question.

"What?" N asked in a serious tone.

"This energy is... unnaturally high. You should be able to feel it" When his leader mentioned an unnatural energy, N felt a big influx of energy coming from the walls. It was so large that it could be felt by all three disassembly drones, having united on the entrance of the cave to look at the colony. A blue light started emitting from the walls, turning into a solid glass like structure around the open city.

"Urrgr?" Ω, who was still waking up, asked.

"I don't know, but good thing it isn't" N replied, looking at the absurd amount of energy coming from the walls.

"Wait" The other two disassemblies looked at θ "Oh my God" His eyes widened at the realization.

"What's the problem?" N asked, being ignored by θ, who grabbed Ω, letting out a surprised groan, but not offering any struggle.

"C'mon N, we need to go inside quick!" The leader said, before flying onto the sun with no fear. The pilot was stunned, wondering what was happening, but with no answers left, he could only trust his orders, releasing his wings and flying to the hot sun.

It burned, their skins were being torned from their body each second they could feel that warm light on their back, but θ wasn't scared, he continued foward, eyes set on the destiny. Ω could also feel some burns on his body, although it was all mostly being blocked by his carrier. The nibbles of pain waking him up from his half asleep state. N observed with worry as his leader kept flying. He didn't understand what made him decide to do this from the sudden. Stepping on sunlight was almost certain death for them, so why?

That's when he realized what the energy was forming. A blue dome around the colony was nearly formed, only a spot at the entrance was open for them. Now he understood, this was their last chance.

N quickly arrived at their side, flying as fast as he could, only for θ to start spinning, losing velocity. N looked back, only to see Ω being thrown at an insane speed inside the colony. The pilot looked at his leader, who continued to fly right after his throw, so, he continued going foward.

Ω gets up from the ground and looks around, seeing thousands of workers looking at him. N quickly arrived, nearly falling over on his landing. He looked around, his back burning and emitting a red light. It was eerly quiet now, in contrast with how it was some seconds ago, erupting with screams. A sound echoed in the lack of others, that being of metal being ripped. N and Ω looked up, only to see θ falling to the ground. His back was extrelemely burned, having nearly reached to his endo skeleton; his wings were open on the side of his body, showing all of it's destruction, having being ripped when entering the dome.

Their leader hadn't moved for some moments, wich made the two disassembly worry for something bad, but, slowly and shakingly, he was able to get off the ground and start healing his body. His teeths were clashing against each other with force. He clearly wasn't amused by the situation.

"I'm going to find the power source, you two do the capture. Now"

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θ was quick to jump away, searching for the power source. As his green hair and shape disappeared in the distance, N and Ω observed with some worry in their faces. It had been some time since they saw him getting angry, must've been the drinks they had last night. 

"Is he going to be okay?" The pilot asked.

"Urggryh" The greek answered without being sure of his own words.

"Well, we can only hope he is" N turned away and looked at the workers, taking a deep breath "Let's do it" He said, releasing his virus injectors, Ω doing the same.

They leaped foward, the workers around them backing away with a little bit if fear, but not running. Before any of the two even got close to any victims, a cloud of dust exploded onto the air, blocking their vision. N heightened his senses and noticed that someone new had arrived, through the sounds, it seemed to be a normal worker.

"What are you all doing here!? Go hide somewhere!" Screamed a male voice. The workers that had gathered around the disassemblies started to run away as the dust lowered. The disassemblers could now see their new prey, a male worker with a white hoodie; grey shirt underneath; an oversized black pants with a pair of sneakers and black glasses. N and Ω looked at each other, incredulous someone would actually wear that.

"Urgryuh" Ω warned N.

"Yeah, I felt a little weird too. He's deftinaly different from the normal worker" N got into guard, he didn't want to mess around with this one.

"So" The worker spoke to them "You two are the ones causing trouble around here, huh?" He took off his glasses, revealing his bright blue eyes, cleaning them a little, before putting them back on.

"Pablo!" A female voice rang from behind the male worker. All three of them turned towards it, seeing a female worker with long pink hair, wearing a purple hoodie with black shorts.

"What are you doing here Julia?" Pablo responded, his gaze quickly shifting from her to the disassemblies, making sure they haven't moved "Go hide somewhere while I deal with them"

"W-Wait. I got the information that there was a third one with them" Julia said in between breaths. This shocked the man.

"What!?" His fists clenched "Where did he go?" His gaze turned away from the disassemblies for a second, and Ω took that opportunity, running towards the male worker. However, before he reached him, the greek drone felt something pushing his down with great force, smashing him on the hard ground.

"A-A solver?!" N screamed in shock, seeing the blue symbol that the disassemblies feared so much. Ω groaned in pain, being forced against the dirt.

"Drones said he went to the castle" Julia continued, not bothered by the disassembly's attempt. Pablo let out a sigh of relief.

"Oh, I don't have to worry about anything then. My focus will be fully yours now" He turned towards the two hunter drones, a smile in his face as his glasses fell a little, showing the blue solver on his visor. Julia took this opportunity to run away.

He extended his hand, the symbol hovering in front of it, but before he could do anything, a bullet went past his hand, detaching it from his arm. Pablo grunted in pain, holding his wrist close to his abdomen. His vision locked on the other disassembly as he raised his other hand, on enough time to catch another bullet flying directly towards his head. That's when the worker noticed that these were high caliber shots, they were able to pass through his passive shield.

N pulled the bolt of his single action sniper. The distraction was enough to free Ω, who rolled away and got up, getting behind the enemy, readying his claws. The three drones stared at eachother for some time, catching their breaths and thinking. Pablo still clenched his wrist, hiding it from the two disassembly, waiting for it to regenerate and observing the two hunters. N and Ω looked at each other, both noticing that the other was just as clueless as they were as to what they could do in this situation. However, they couldn't give up or run away. They had to find a way to win against this solver.

Just as they were going to make a move, Pablo did first, grabbing both of their necks with his, now fully healed, hands. He was ready to decapitate both of them, but they weren't ready to die.

N aimed his sniper towards the worker on the best of his capabilities in the moment, shooting at any point he though it would connect, an attempt that proved to be useless, as Pablo involved his body in his own power and used it to dodge the bullets, being unable to dodge on his own or stop them with his hands already occupied. Ω saw what N was doing and decided to do the same, bringing out his PKM's and shooting at the worker. Pablo looked at Ω, only for the multitude of bullets the greek drone shot to stop right before hitting the target, not being able to pass through the passive shield of the solver. However, this was enough of a distraction for N to hit a shot on Pablo's knee, disrupting his concentration and setting the disassemblers free, as well as sending him to the ground with pain.

With the two murderers released from the solver's grasp, they quickly regained their foot. N aimed his sniper at the solver, while Ω aimed his PKM's. They started unloading everything they got on the downed worker, who shielded himself from all attacks. Pablo noticed that his energy was lowering in a rapid pace, so he'd have to solve this fast, something he already planned to do, as thus was getting annoying for him.

The worker concentrated a huge power on his hand and slammed it on the ground, creating a huge shockwave that destroyed the area around him, sending the disassemblers away, giving him enough time to regenerate his knee. He now had to end this battle.

N landed on the ground, looking around, searching for his enemy, but he only detected an object quickly approaching his location. He dodged to the side, seeing a pointy rock pass by him and pierce the wall. On the side of his vision, he saw the worker appear from thin air with other rocks envolted in the blue solver symbol, that were rapidly launched at him. N did his best to avoid any of the shots, but wasn't able to dodge the drone, who teleported to his side, readying a punch imbued with the solver, striking his head, sending the pilot against the wall with immense force.

N wondered how a worker could be so strong, although he knew he wouldn't get an answer, specially now. His lights flickered, as he fell to the ground, nearly losing his consciousness. Pablo looked at the defeated disassembly. He grabbed a rock with the solver and was ready to pierce the core of the murder drone, but was interrupted with a huge impact on his side, sending him directly to the wall, where he used his solver to decrease the damage.

The solver looked foward, only to see the other disassembly getting up from the ground and lauching himself towards him with his claws ready to mutilate anything in the path. The worker was fast to act, dodging the strike and grabbing the greek drone's neck with the solver, ready to rip his head off. However, in the last moment, the side's of the worker broke, making Pablo fall to the ground, grunting in pain, while Ω was thrown to the side.

Both drones were grunting on the ground, the pain coursing through their bodies, but they couldn't stop, not when they were so close to finishing the job. Ω slowly got up, tired and weak, his weak metal giving up on himself, while Pablo grabbed a rock with the solver, but didn't raise it, instead deciding to wait.

Ω started to walk towards his prey, while the prey waited.

The hunter was close, but not enough, so Pablo waited.

When Ω prepared the last launch, that would end this battle, a rock went straight through his chest, but unfortunaly for Pablo, it missed the core. The disassembly fell to the ground, gasping for air as oil leaked from his wound. The solver tried to get up or move any of his limbs, but it hurt too much. They were both stuck on the ground, pleading for anything to help them.

From afar, Julia watched the whole battle, afraid of the moment that had arrived. Pablo couldn't fight anymore, but, neither could his enemy. So this gave the worker girl a chacne to do something, to help her friend. She quickly grabbed a bag of oil and started running towards the male worker.

"Pablo!" She screamed getting the attention of not only the worker, but also of the disassembly. The solver was pissed, but he couldn't muster any stregth to scream towards her. She was safe and would save him. That thought brought a smile to his face. Maybe if that newcomer, Jeremy, was here, maybe he wouldn't be in this situation.

From the wall of the colony, a sniper aimed at the running girl. It calculated her speed, the speed of the bullet, and the exact location she'd need to be for eveything to work as he planned. So he waited.

The girl got closer, her worry being visible, but he could only wait for the right moment.

Ω tried to move on the ground, but didn't have any strength left, but he only had to wait, soon he'd have energy to come back.

"Ω!" N screamed, taking a shot at the girl's leg, ripping it off and making her fall to the ground, close to the wounded disassembly, who opened his mouth, his sharp teeth aimed at Julia's metalic flesh.

Pablo didn't think, he only acted. In an impulse, a surge of energy, he was able to teleport himself towards her, pushing the falling girl out of the way, as the disassembler closed his mouth, penetrating the solver's flesh, drawing as much oil as he could.

Julia landed on her butt, watching in horror as half of Pablo's face and his shoulder were engulfed by that monster's mouth. Tears started forming on her visor, not from the pain of her missing leg, but from the missing friend she now had.

N took this opportunity to use the little energy he had left and activate his wings, doing a quick pounce on the girl, quickly destroying her vocal cords and ripping her core, before relishing on her oil, feeling his system slowly come back to normal and wake him up from the nearly eternal sleep he was put in.

Pablo was still alive, just bearly, but he wish he wasn't. He heard Julias quiet cries, followed by the sound of carnage. She was dead and he wasn't able to stop them. More will die because he wasn't able to win a fight. No, he couldn't accept that. Not here, not now, not ever.

Ω extracted enough oil to start healing his wound, but was pushed to the side by the solver, who teleported away. Both disassemblers were left confused, wondering how the worker was still alive, but then felt an extreme surge of energy coming from the top of the colony. Above the castle, they could faintly make the shape of a worker. It was him, standing there, ready for his final move.

Pablo raised his hands to the air and started draining energy from the shield around the colony. They weren't useful anymore, since the monsters had entered the colony, so he would use it to give him one last shot at killing them. He never thought he would be doing a sacrificial move like this, but it didn't matter. There were other drones that could take his place after he died. The King wouldn't do that, but he has what it takes to live through this and continue, but Jeremy, he's a strange guy, he'll probably be fine.

N and Ω observed as visible energy started to envelop the drone in the castle. N aimed his sniper and took a shot, but he could only watch as the bullet was desintegrated by the energy when it came close to the solver. Ω however, had a different idea.

"Unui, rrgrytuio!" He quickly told his squadmate. N looked at him with a surprised face.

"You want me to launch you there?! No way, you'd be desintegrated, the same thing happened to my bullet" The pilot retorted.

"Aretuiope, ollkiew" The greek said with confidence.

They were running out of options. The shields were the only thing keeping them safe from the light of the sun, and it was going to disappear at this rate. So N took a deep breath and nodded. He didn't know how to do this, but he had to do it. He ran to an elevated portion of the ground and prepared, he imagined a launcher so big that a single hand wouldn't be able to form it, and slowly, it started to take shape. The, sort of, liquid metal coming out of N's hands started to unite and take the shape of a giant crossbow. When done, Ω hopped on top of it and got ready. The pilot took another breath, hoping this would work, because if it didn't... He didn't know if he'd be able to continue.

Ω was launched into the air with enourmous speed, readying a punch with everything he could deliver at the moment. Pablo felt the disassembly coming closer, thinking on how annoying this beast was with how insistent it was, but he didn't worry about it. On the state he was, nothing would be able to pass the energy shield he put around himself.

In a second, Ω reached Pablo, the punch being delivered, creating a massive shockwave that shook the buildings around them, but not being able to pass through the shield, even with all the additional momentum from his launch. The energy from the shield started to enter the disassembler's body, creating a bulge around his arm that started to move towards his shoulder. However, this only put a smile on the murder drone's face, as his rubber like metal pushed the energy back, and with more force, striked at the shield one more time, breaking a hole in it. Pablo was shocked, but wasn't fast enough to react.

N flew to the lacation where the two drones would fall, seeing that they had done it, they won against a solver. A smile increased on his face as he couldn't wait to deliver the news to his sister and θ, to see their faces and for them to tell how proud they are of him. Maybe even the others will start to recognize him after this. The pilot was quickly snapped out of his thoughts when he remembered what he had to do at the moment, save his friend from the fall.

Ω watched as the corpse of the solver fell alongside him with his tail piercing his core. He didn't have any way of surviving this fall, but he couldn't take that smile of his face. He had done it, ever since that fateful mission, he was able to kill one of them. The greek disassembly wished that θ was here to see him do this, but it was probably better this way. This way, his death wouldn't be on his hands, not this one.

Ω closed his eyes and embraced himself for one final impact, until he felt something wrap around his body. His eyes opened and he saw N, hugging him and slowly decreasing the speed on wich they were falling. The solver body disconnected from Ω's tail and continued to fall, but the two disassemblers slowly went to ground, were they landed and gave to the tiredness they were both feeling. There was some silence between them, before a faint laughter could be heard, followed by a full on laughter from N.

"H-How did you do that?" He asked in between his laughs.

"Uggryu Poulti" Ω explained.

"Double attack? That's what you call that?" N laughed a little more, before it died down "You truly are a pokemon, huh?" This earned a loud laugh from the greek, that soon turned into a cough, then stopped as fast as it began.

"Uggty" Ω cussed him, making N laugh a little more.

They continued layed on the ground for some time, before Ω started getting up, even with all his limbs telling him to stop and lay down again, he got on his feet. N just looked at him with curiosity.

"What are you doing? Lay down a bit, we're both too tired"

"Urrgryuoi. Wertopiuy" Ω grunted in annoyance. The pilot took a deep breath and slowly got up.

"Okay, let's finish this and then get some rest" He said, as a smile appeared on both their faces.

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θ immediately sprinted off to the place with most energy in the bunker. He could feel his head hurting a little. He shouldn't have drunk before, it's obviously affecting the way he thinks. The way he was rude to his team. He could only feel shame in it, but it wasn't time to think about that. They were in a mission, he could apologize later.

All the energy of the bunker, although concentrated on the barrier, came from the castle at the middle of the colony. It was the first time θ saw such a construction made by workers. They generally stick to their underground bunkers. Rarely building something outside and when they do it's mostly small houses, but to see this monstrosity on the open was sure a surprise.

The Greek disassembly felt a bad sensation about leaving his team behind like that. Although they would always do this procedure, this time he felt that something was different. Maybe if he satyed and calmed down, maybe if he hadn't been so rude to them, maybe this feeling wouldn't exist.

His thoughts were stopped once he reached the doors to the castle. They were huge, higher than most houses around, clearly showing the superiority of the worker living inside. Despite it's size, the piece of wood wasn't hard to move, as if sliding in ice. Inside was dark, there were candles, but none had fire in them. It seems that whoever was, or is, inside is trying to hide in the darkness.

θ made his way deeper into the main hall, seeing pictures of a worker with a gloden crown. Each painting was of a different time, like it was telling a story. When the disassembly arrived at the center of the room, the door, who was still open, suddenly closed itself with force. Plunging the place in a complete darkness. The Greek drone heightened his senses and activated his night vision. Having a mechanical door was a smart move, but when your predator has enough stregth to escape, it isn't a reliable trick.

With his senses heightened, θ felt something coming from the end of the room. It was a complete darkness, impossible to breach with normal eyes, but he could see. There was a drone sitting in a chair, no, a throne. It was the king of this place it seems. The disassembly got his virus gun out, ready to put the worker to sleep, until he fell to the ground.

His head hurt like nothing could ever do to him. Even if the most powerful disassembly was crushing his head, it wouldn't create a pain equal to this. His head spun around in an acidic vision. It melted in front of him with bright colors, blinding what he once called world. His ears shot a piercing sound that threw him off balance. Any attempt at getting up was immediately shot down by his nerves spasming to the epileptic view and deafening melody.

Even in the seizure like experience he was having, θ still thought. He, as quickly as he could, lowered all of his senses. His vision didn't change, the colors impregnated into his visor, not leaving. His ears still hung the same nail through his head. However, slowly, he could feel it washing away. His vision started to see the room, the walls that were bland and unimportant, now quickly switched between the brightest colors perceived by a screen. He could faintly make the sound of loud noises, it was in such a high frequency that even the ground shook with it, but it didn't seem to make any sense.

The Greek drone looked up, oil coming out of his visor and ears from the experience. The king, who was sitting on the throne was now in front of him. White shirt, black pants, bare feet, red cape with golden accessories and a rainbow hair and eyes; staring directly at the fallen disassembler.

"How do you feel monster?" It asked with a big smile "I created this room for even the blind to see and deaf to hear" It looked around, breathing the strong waves of sound "Ain't it beautiful?" The king turned it's head, facing θ, who didn't even know how he was even hearing the worker "But you want to destroy it. This increadible place. My place" It turned around "As a king, I can't allow that happen. So, I'll strike you down with the very mace I used against everyone who stood in my way" The king took a golden mace, with round parts in it's top, from behind his cape.

θ, although somehow capable, wasn't hearing any of what the king said. He was scanning his surroundings, looking for a way out. There were metal doors on the side, impossible for him to break. The door that he had come from, was now probably too heavy to even open in his weakened state. There wasn't any windows close enough to the ground for him to jump and with his wings damaged, he would never fly until they regenerated. The disassembler now felt what it was to be a worker, no, worse then one. He was helpless in this scene.

The king raised his mace and striked θ's hand, that was crushed by the impact. The disassembly's broken hand started to shake, not expecting it to inflict such damage. All of it's internals had been destroyed, making it useless. He was surprised, since his sensing capabilities had been completely removed for him to even hold his own mind, he now couldn't see the attacks of his enemy. That's when he realized the position he was in.

The worker started to laugh, seeing the so feared monster unable to defend himself. θ swapped his other hand with a revolver and quickly shot against the king, but the bullet only ricochetted off its skin. The smile in its face growing in size. It swung its mace back and throwed it right at the disassembly's face. The impact broke his visor, sending his body to the air; falling right after. The disasembler got up with struggle, wondering what that stregth was. No worker should ever have that, nor should they be able to survive a bullet. This one wasn't like any else, it was sepcial.

The Greek got onto one knee. In a span of minutes his sensors were completely useless and he found himself outmatched in strength agasint a drone. If he at least had a better weaponry at his disposal, maybe he wouldn't be in this situation. If it wasn't for his damned string defect. The same one that cuts his weapons in more than half, not even being able to form a rocket launcher or sub-machine gun. The one that slows his regeneration to a crawl. The same one that fucked his position in his HQ. If only he didn't have it. That's when θ realized a way to win. It was so obvious, how did he never think of this before? A smile made into his face, making the king get ready for a battle.

The disassembler switched his good hand with his special revolver, aiming at the king, who didn't even bother giving it a glance, only running straight at its enemy. θ shot all of his five round, using the little movement on his crsuhed hand to control the bullets. Two shots went to its torso, while other two went for the legs. The last one was aimed at the king's head. All the shots missed the worker by inches, but that's when θ started his trick.

The torso bullets made a strong curve, circling the arms of the king and trapping them with its torso. The same happened with the legs, halting its movement. The last bullet circled around the king's neck, ready to decapitate him.

However, no oil was dripped, as the king, with brute force, snapped all the strings with no problem; grabbing the one on its neck and simply tearing it off. So this settled it, even his reinforced cables wouldn't do anything against that thing. It was to be expected, but it was better to be sure. θ jumped back, gaining distance between him and his target. His hand had started healing at the moment.

"Running away already?! I thought you monsters were supposed to be our predators!" The king screamed with a smug smile. The disassembler didn't pay any attention however, only having a smug smile of his own.

The disassembler continued to shoot all of his five bullets, than reloading, only to shoot all of them again. The strings started to form a strong cord that, different from the normal threads that came out with the bullets, that were almost invisible to the drone's eyes, was thick and when it came into contact with the worker's skin, it sprayed over all directions. The king took a while to notice what the plan was with all the lines. It was being caged in a spider's web.

θ's plan was working flawlessly. The king didn't even seem to notice it. There was only one problem. His crushed hand, now a little better, was carrying a heavy cord of nilon. He could feel his hand worsening as he continued shooting and adding more and more to that thick line. However, that was quickly solved, as, with one swing of the mace, the king was able to completely destroy the web it was in.

Right after destroying it, the worker dashed foward, readying it's mace to crush its enemy's head. θ was caught off guard, it was too fast for him. Although, he was quick to act, raising his wounded hand and crossing with the other behind for more defense. The mace striked his hand, crushing it even more. Undoing any regeneration done beforehand and crushing it even further. θ was sent flying away once again. Quickly getting up and checking himself. He couldn't even move his hand now, something really bad for him, but aside from that, everything was alright.

The king didn't stop this time, persuing his enemy and attacking. θ quickly activated his ring, releasing the four blades that started spinning. The mace, that was already in motion, got parried by one of the swords, who broke on contact, leaving a clear effect on the weapon. The disassembler took this opportunity to grab one of his EMP granades and throw at the worker, who didn't even see the little object. Much to his relief, the object had effect, paralysing the king.

θ quickly started to grab strings from his internal storage and stitch his hand and the wires. Some would call him dumb to stun an enemy and not attack, but dumb would be to still try when you have full confirmation that your attacks are useless against its skin. If not even bullets could scratch it, what would a sword do? He could see the effect of the EMP wearing off, so he took another and started counting the time.

10

9

8

7

6

5

At this mark, he threw another EMP. The king started to slowly regain its movements, but just as he got them back, the blast of another EMP hit it. Prolonging the effect further. The Greek was thankful he timed it correctly, since throwing an EMP at the wrong moment would just cancel the effect of the other. Something he wouldn't wish at the moment. He checked his coat for more grenades, but didn't find any. This was a big problem.

Just when he finished stitching his hand, regaining a bit of the movements back, he thought of something he could've done to the paralyzed drone. He couldn't believe he had forgotten such a simple thing. His favorite melee weapons. He switched his good hand to a crowbar and ran towards the king, who was already regaining a bit of its movements back. θ swung his crowbar towards its chest, but the king dodged, just as the effect wore off.

The worker jumped back, gaining some space between them and focusing its rainbow eyes on the disassembler. He nearly landed a hit. θ used his special revolver to start shooting close to himself, catching the attention of the king, who could only wonder what its enemy was doing, but not for long, as it ran foward with the intention of stopping whatever he was doing.

The Greek, noticing the attack, made distance between them, still shooting low, but this time in various directions. The king swung it's mace around, trying to cut any string that was in front of him, but none were broken, instead, its advance was stopped by it tripping and falling to the ground. Earning a chuckle from its enemy, who got an annoyed grunt in response.

"Do you only run monster?! Can't you face me like a man?! Do you have no pride in yourself?!" The king screamed in annoyance.

"Why would I do that? My pride is in finishing my job. You're just a statistic" θ smiled, just bearly seeing the uncountable strings he placed around the ground, forming a maze that one wrong step would make you fall.

The king also noticed the threads on the ground, but didn't pay mind to it. It started swinging it's mace like a golf club, braking the lines. The disassembler in response started shooting his gun at the worker, which met no result, as the bullets only bounced off. It wasn't long before it had cleared a big part of the strings on the ground while he continued to shoot his gun. This fight was already getting annoying to the king, who decided to end this, sprinting with all he had. However, θ had partially finished his plan. He felt the first result of it. He felt emptier.

As the worker approached him, his visor switched from the yellow orbs to a giant X of same color. He swapped his revolver with a crowbar and ran towards his enemy. This caught the king off guard, but it wasn't out of its expectations. WIth a swing even faster than before, it striked. However, it only hit air, as the disassembly was able to dodge it by mere inches. A black hole formed in the middle of the rainbow eyes, as it wondered, how he did it. θ used the momentum of his dodge to strike his crowbar at the junction between the elbow and the chest, where it was supposed to be the change between a plate and the other. Just as he expected, there it was. His crowbar easily grabbed it, destroying the shirt, and, with the rest of the swing, rip the metal off the body. However, much to the disassembler's dismay, his crowbar slipped off, only removing a part of the surface.

Both drones fell back, be it for fear or physics. θ looked at his enemy and saw something he would've never expected, a thick defensive steel plate was revealing, underneath, the actual worker body. The king was using a sort of exo-skeleton or armor. This was something the disassembler would never expect to see in his life. Yet, there it was. The worker, seeing the damage inflicted, bended the plate back to its place, but the torn shirt revealed the badly fixed plate, a clear weak point that θ would use.

As the disassembly analysed, he judged that a single rocket should be able to kill the king at the moment. A large smile formed on his face. This battle was close to be over, his plan was nearly done, just a little more. He thought, as his crowbar switched to his special revolver.

The king came back to its senses. WIth a serious face, it rushed foward, meeting a barrage of shoot aiming at its damaged plate. The king deflected some shots, but didn't bother to do it with all, as that would only slow it down. Getting close to the disassembly, it started swinging, but he activated his ring, bringing the three remaining blades in the form of a claw.

The king did a swing downward, but θ slided it in one of the blades, cracking it, but giving an opportunity for him to shoot the plate with his revolver. It regained its posture and swung at his right side, the disassembly deflected with the broken blade, destrying it on the process, but giving another opportunity for a shot. The worker followed up with another swing to the left side. The disassembler deflected with another claw, breaking it and shooting again. This time, the king did a diagonal swing upward, forcing θ to deflect with the last sword, also breaking it, but giving space for another bullet. It finished its fury of attacks with one last downward swing. The Greek used the last reserves of metal inside the ring to create a small shield of the size of his hand, using it to slide the attack off, shooting the last bullet in the revolver.

The disassembler was sent back with the force of the last attack, that, even not hitting him, was strong enough to do so. The king could feel the damaged plate crushing its own chest, but couldn't care about that now, not now when he was so close to the end. However, θ's smile only grew bigger. His plan was finally complete. He never felt this in his life, he was so light, so empty. After 19 years of carrying those strings inside his body, he, for the first time, got rid of all of them. Although it was a momentary solution, it still was a great feeling for him.

"Look thing" The Greek started to talk "I never did this before, so sorry in advance if anything goes wrong" θ raised his left hand, nearly fully regenerated, his hand was sucked back inside his arm, ready to switch into something else. The metal quickly started taking the shape of a cannon like weapon, until, it was ready. A rocket launcher, not a perfect one, but good enough to work. The king didn't expect its enemy to finish, quickly running towards him, but before it reached, he fired.

A huge explosion happened inside the disassembler's arm, blowing it from inside, scattering parts across the entire room. It happened so fast, that θ didn't even have time to react, as a missile was launched at an incredibly high speed against the worker, hitting exactly the damaged plate. It didn't offer any protection, as the projectile forced the plate to crush the body inside, killing the king in an instant.

The body was launched across the room as θ's arm burned to ashes, but at the moment, he didn't even scream, not feeling the pain. The giant door was broken by the missile, that was sent to another place in the colony. Leaving the disassembler behind, with a broken arm.

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Ω and N stood in the stairs to the castle, looking at all the workers of the colony standing in line. They all looked afraid of them or hopeless in their situation. Some were trembling, others were sitting on the ground, but still all in a single line. The air was thick with sadness, but neither disassemblies did anything. Although they knew exactly what they should do, they didn't want to proceed without their leader. So the two just waited, keeping everyone in line.

As they were waiting, a loud bang echoed throughout the entire colony. Everyone looked to the source of the sound, seeing the doors to the king's castle busted open with an object flying at high speeds from it. Everyone watched as the object flew through the sky in the colony, until they noticed that it was heading towards them. The workers watched in fear as it came closer and closer, the landing area clearly being them.

In one second, the majority of the workers started running away, screaming fro their life. While others didn't have any hope left in their bodies. Ω quickly swapped his hands with PKMs and started shooting the running workers. N released his wings and flew above, bringing out a rocket launcher and shooting the fleeing workers outside of Ω's view. It was a loud oilshed with bullets, rockets and body parts flying everywhere.

"We should've kept them with the virus" N commented in the middle of the carnage.

"Urg" Ω agreed.

The killing continued for some time, until the flying object fell on the ground, ending some workers that were too close. Everyone that was close looked at it, curious about what it might be. Smoke was covering the recognition of the object, so they just stood around, wainting for it to dissipate. It didn't take too long for the fog to disappear. That's when the drones saw a damaged rocket piercing a worker drone many knew as the king. He had fallen to one of the intruders, all the defenses had. There was no hope anymore.

"Was that θ?" N asked his teammate as he flew back into position.

"Urggrh" Ω agreed with some doubt.

As they settled in their places, they heard a sound coming from behind. The two disassemblers looked to the top of the stairs and saw someone walking down. The drone looked hurt, very badly hurt. It took some time for the two killers to notice who it was. The green hair walked down the stairs, holding his torso while limping. The clothes were torn and there was a lot of oil and injuries around the body.

"θ!" N immeadiately ran up to him, with Ω close behind "My God, what happened to you?" He said in shock as he looked at the injuries in the leader's body. Ω seemed worried about his friend.

"Don't worry about it. Let's finish this and we'll have a talk" He said in a tired voice. That statement did make N and Ω apprehensive about the talk, did they do something?

"Well, we gathered everyone here, but didn't want to do this without you" N explained as θ moved away "Although we did kill some of them"

"Urrgrh gra" The animalistic drone commented.

"Yeah, they tried to escape, so we killed them. These are the ones left" He showed θ the survivors of the massacre.

The green haired disassembler looked at them. He just wanted this to end, being tired and hurt. He focused his attention on his senses. These drones didn't seem to be willing to fight back, they'll do anything we tell them to do. It would be easy, just wait a little for the speech and then be done. In the last moment, θ sensed something strange. An energy coming from almost out of his reach, as if someone was spying on them. He looked at the location he sensed the energy and there it was. There was a silhouette there. Although it could simply be nothing, it was too strange to not distrust.

"Just do your speech. They'll do anything we say" The green haired drone said in a tired voice. Neither N or Ω tried to ask him anything in the moment, just deciding to finish with things here.

N turned to the lifeless drones and took a deep breath "So, hello to all of you-"

He however, could not finish even his first words, as the ground they stood shook with immense force. The workers didn't even bother with the shake, but the disassemblers quickly looked around them. They could see the entire ground move in a spiral. The center of it all being the plaza they were in. They were in the center of a funnel, too late to escape.

The rocks in their feet were dragged down as they fell into a large hole, a giant darkness, ready to swallow them whole. In a quick act θ and N released their wings and flew up, with the greek leader catching Ω in the way. The three flew up, thankful that they could escape whatever did this destruction. θ didn't know what it was, but he could only remember the spiral he saw other time. As the two drones flew, while the wingless squadmate was dragged. They could see that the entire colony lost it's ground, falling into what they could only describe as a giant maze.

They escaped the darkness, flying to the light above, being protected by the energy shield, although they could still see the sunlight through it. It was weird, but none of them were complaining. What they thought was even more strange, was the light they followed quickly decreasing in size. They looked up, only to see the walls of the colony tilting to the inside of the hole.

"We have to be quick now" θ screamed to N, as they both flew together as fast as they could to get out of there. Without wall, there was no shield and no shield meant they would be exposed to the sunlight. They had to reach the forest before any deadly damage was dealt to them.

They flew past the falling walls, until, they suddenly stopped. They closed the hole, almost like a cover. There was only one hole in the middle, for the energy shield. The trio noticed that they were completely surrounded by the energy shield. They hadn't escaped anything, instead, only ran exactly to the problem.

"Well shi-" θ didn't finish his sentence as the three of them were sent down by the stabilization of the shield at a speed higher than the sound barrier, smashing them in the way.

...

θ slowly opened his eyes. It was all dizzy and dark. He could bearly see anything aside from a blue dot in the distance. He carefully got up and scratched his head, it didn't seem to be damaged or dented. A good thing in the greek's book. He looked around him and could faintly see the pile of rubble he was in. Scattered across this pile of broken rocks was N, slightly twitching his body, and Ω, unmoving on the ground. The green haired drone got up and crawled to them.

The leader reached both his squadmates and started to analyze them. A process that was going to take too long with his systems nearly offline, but it was better to know if they were alive or not. N seemed to be fine, apart from some injuries in his arms and chest. Nothing big that he wouldn't be able to heal. Ω on the other hand seemed much worse, giant cuts that went deep in his body and heavy dents all around. θ approached and checked for a signal of energy running through his body and luckly found a constant stream of it. It wasn't the most optimal amount of energy to be running in a body, but it would suffice. It had to. The leader was just relieved to know they were alive.

θ's vision started to compose itself. With a grunt, he was able to see normally again. His sensors were still weaker than they should be, but he could at least look around the area. It didn't seem to have anyone alive or anything even moving. No energy, no nothing. This place was completely abandoned. Which was good for them. If even a worker found them in this state, they would be just bearly able to kill it. Imagine a horde of them. They would certainly die in the hands of them. Not a good look.

θ heard a grunt on his side, it was N waking up. The boy moved a little from side to side, his optics bearly working. He moved a hand to his face and took a deep breath. When he suddenly opened his eyes and got up. He felt something holding his chest, as he looked at it, he was put down again.

"Don't move too much. You're systems are still checking themselves for any problem. Just relax, we're not in any danger" θ spoke with him, taking his hand off his chest. N was relieved to see his leader okay and calmed down, laying on the ground.

"What about Ω?" The pilot asked.

θ looked at their friend, still laying on the ground with no signs of waking up. His wounds were healing, but at a pace of a normal disassembler, not the normal for him "He'll probably be okay, just needs some time to get back on his feet"

"That's good to hear" N said as he took deep breaths, his systems already getting better "You said we weren't in danger" He got up, feeling better now "But where are we?" He said as he looked around, not remmebring anything like this.

"Seems like an abandoned system of tunnels below the colony. I don't know why it was made, but it could be the place workers stayed while the walls were built"

"Oh yeah, the walls" N looked up "What happened with them?"

θ looked up too, seeing the walls closing the hole they were in with a single blue dot right above them. Around the dot were curved lines that went from the extremes of the colony to it's center, forming the shape of a spiral "I don't know, but it's something much stronger than we can face. So it's better to just leave this place and inform the company about it"

N saluted while sitting on the rubble "But how are we gonna leave this place? Can you see a way out with your sensors?"

"Not really, we'll have to look for it, but we'll wait for Ω to wake up first" θ responded as he layed on the pile.

Just as he settled down, Ω's visor turned on. The drone loudly groned in disconfort, taking the attention of the other two. They walked up to him and watched as he rolled around, trying to make the headache go away. θ signaled for N to stay in his place, while he walked to Ω's other side and stood there. Creating two walls to make sure the rolling drone wouldn't fall off the rubble. Ω continued doing it, until his pain got better. He stopped and looked up, to see bboth his squadmates looking down at him. He looked back a bit tense.

"Uggrhr?"

"Nothing is happening. We're just happy you're okay" θ responded, walking away to the base of the rubble pile.

Ω slowly got up and looked around "Urgrrah?"

"Lay down and rest for a little until you're completely fine. We're in a maze of tunnels. After you recuperate we're going to leave this place" θ walked to a bifurcation in front of them and looked at it.

"Urrgre?"

"θ said he didn't sense anyone here, so I guess we're fine" N responded, sitting on the greek's side.

The two stayed there for some time while θ continued checking the tunnels around them. There wasn't any sound being made, just a complete defeaning silence. It made the two resting disassemblies uncomfortable, but they also didn't know what to talk about, so they just left as it was. θ didn't even notice the silence as he looked around, just making sure. He couldn't fully trust his sensors in the moment, not after the battle inside the castle and being knocked out. It could be damaged or not working properly and he didn't want to get ambushed any time soon.

Ω already felt better, so he got up and stretched his limbs like an animal. N found it cute, but decided to not comment on it "θ!" He called. Soon the leader appeared.

"What?"

"We're ready to go. Ω's already feeling better" N pointed to the drone in question, who was finishing his stretching. There were still some wounds on his body, but nothing that endangered him.

"Okay. So, I don't know the full layout of this place. I tried finding any energy or something in miles from here, but the only thing I can sense is the energy shield up there" He pointed at the blue dot "But considering that this place is around the same size and shape as the colony, I have a plan to cover as much ground as we can" θ started to talk, but N raised his hand "What's your question?"

"How do you know this place is the same size and shape as the colony?"

"When we were falling" θ showed a picture of when they were falling from his view. In it, they could see the maze they were in, around the same size and shape as the colony "I have made a map with the little information I have from these views, but I can't see a way out of this though here"

"Urrgry?" Ω asked, making N worry a little.

"Yeah, h-he's right. What if there isn't a way out?" N's eyes hollowed in a bit of dispair.

"Don't overreact N. There has to be a way out. Even if burried. How would the workers enter and leave?"

"Urgyutgr iggr"

"Yeah, what if the way out was inside the, now destroyed, colony?" N's voice raised a little.

θ put a hand on he boy's shoulder "Don't worry N, there is a way out of here. We are going to find it" The leader than turned to Ω with a slightly disappointed look.

"Ugg? Yrrgret go" The greek defended himself.

"Your thoughts aren't helping a lot. We have to look for ourselves. So here's what we're going to do. Right were we are is a split to four tunnels. The three you can see and one behind the pile of rubble. What we're going to do is that we three will go in these different direction until we reach a wall. When we do, place a marker in that wall. Now, the one who goes to the left, will start walking alongside the wall to the left, the one in the right is going to the same thing, but to the right, until they meet each other. The one who goes in the middle will walk to one of the sides until he finds one of the markers, then turn around and go to the other side. Understood?"

"Nope" N shook his head with confidence. Ω doing the same.

θ took a deep breath "Do you see these three ways we can go to?" The two noodded "Pick one" The two thought for a bit, before they chose. N went for the right, while Ω went for the left "Okay this leaves me in the middle. Here's what you're going to do N" He walked close to said drone "You're going to walk in a stright line, until you see a curved wall, when you do, you'll mark it with something. Um... Make an x with your claws in it okay?" The boy nodded "Then, you're going to walk alongside the wall to the right okay?"

"Okay, but when do I stop?"

"When you meet Ω" θ said as he turned around and walked to the other greek disassembly "So here is what you're going to do. You're going to walk into a stright line, until you see a curved wall. When you see that, mark it with an x. After that, you're going to walk to the left until you meet N. Okay?" Ω nodded.

"What about you?" N asked.

"I'm just going to check the rest. Don't worry. Are you two ready though?" He looked to them, receiving nods of confirmation back "Good, so let's start. The sooner we finish, the sooner we're out" θ said as he deployed his wings and flew to his side. N doing the same, while Ω just grumbled, running to his a part.

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"Just remember to report everything you see. My sensors aren't in their best condition, so they could have missed something. Stay alert and aware of your surroundings" θ warned through the system.

After N received the message, he looked back at the path he was taking, just in time to dodge a curve he hadn't seem. He was going as fast as he could in the crumpled, old and creepy halls of this maze. The walls were run down, but each had it's own unique thing. Although the disassembler didn't notice any of them due to the speed he was going. It would be a miracle if he could even see anything that wasn't a blur in his path.

Miracously, he did. The boy noticed a strange blurred shape that was too distinct from anything else. He hid his wings and placed his foot on the ground, sliding through the ground trying to stop his momentum. Eventually, he came to a halt, although at the cost of his feet burning like a furnace. He could only blame himself for that though. Despite the pain, the boy walked back the way he came, until he found the strange sight.

"Hey, I found a pile of worker bodies here" N reported.

"Worker bodies?" θ said in perplexion.

"Yup and they're completely dry. Not a single drop of oil in them" N analysed the bodies.

"Urrgragh" Ω commented.

"It surely is strange. It could be old habitants of this place" θ pondered.

"Don't think so. The bodies are too new for that. Looks like only some months old" N continued reporting his analysis.

"Urrgryu ogghui yhjui" Ω attempted an answer.

"No, although the wild life here is insane, no living thing eats oil" θ shot his friend's suggestion down.

"Urgr oggjiopo liju" Ω answered one more time.

"Yeah, it could be his" N confirmed.

"Wait, wait. You guys fought a solver?" θ asked in surprise.

"Ur" Ω confirmed nonchalantly.

"And none of you told me that?!" The leader screamed.

"Oh, I guess we forgot to tell you. Well, you would know about it sooner or later on our report anyway" N said, not caring a lot.

"Do any of you two even know what that means?!" θ was incredulous with their reaction.

"Urrgreh?" Ω answered unbothered.

"No- I mean, yes. We do gain more money, but it also means that the perception other squads and humans have of us will change. Things will change after we go back" θ proclaimed.

"Urrgryuoi?" Ω asked.

"I-I'm not mad.It's just that... It's a surprise. You can't just drop that on me from all of the sudden" This took a chuckle out of the other two disassemblies "Well, whatever. This is really a good news. I'm glad you two were able to do that and get out alive. When we're out of here we're going to properly celebrate this" θ announced to the other two.

"Ohhh, what will it be?" N asked with excitement.

"You'll see it when the times comes" The leader responded.

"Uh, come on. Tell me" N insisted.

"Nope. You'll have to learn to wait a little" θ said with a heardable smirk in his face.

"Urrgryu, oiggryu" Ω interrupted the conversation in a serious tone.

"What is it?" θ immediately changed his focus and tone.

"Urrgreyuogu kuipoler huiop" Ω reported his situation.

"Fresh oil?" θ said in confusion.

"Ur" The animalistic greek confirmed.

Ω continued walking on all fours, following the scent he had just smelled. The very obvious fresh oil that was running through the halls. As he followed it, he reached a curved wall that stretched itself around the corners of the greek's vision. This was the destination he had to go. He brought his claws out and made a big X on the wall. He then started walking to the left, which was also the same way were the smell of oil was heading to, getting fresher and fresher.

"Urrgryu, Iujuocohgi. Errwtu farrtuy" Ω reported his change in course.

"Good, the oil is probably the solver's reserves as you said" θ responded.

"Urrgreiuty kiouyu" Ω commented on the oil's scent, that was getting too fresh.

"How fresh?"

"Urgre kiouyu" The animalistic drone answered.

"Ω, stop" θ said in a comanding voice "Let's group up together. There's another solver down here" He ordered, but depite it, Ω started running as fast as he could "Ω! What did I just tell you!?"

"Urrgeryuoi, NNNNN orgrewquio!" Ω said with worry and adrenaline as he ran with all he could.

"What do you mean N is-" Before θ could finish his sentence, he received a message from the said squadmate. It was a simple message, it only read a 'danger' in it.

N was inside a locker, having bearly to no space for himself. The walls smashed what little space he had free, trapping him in an uncomfortable position. He forced his mouth closed with will and took deep breaths, trying to not hyperventilate. Small tears where in the corner of his visor, falling onto his cheeks. His chest had a huge scratch mark leaking oil down his body. It hurt, but he couldn't even feel it. His entire body was focused on another thing.

He was hidden inside a small locker, there were three lines that showed the outside to him. From these small gaps, he could see the room he was in. A normal and dull looking bedroom with oil splattered across the walls and ceiling. However, the look of the room was the least of the boy's worries. Around the entire room were countless stretchy worker arms, coming from a concentrated mass of hands, ravaging the room. In the middle of all the chaos, he could see a hunched worker body with ripped clothes, the arms sprouting out of it's back. It had a blue helmet, but it's visor was completely shadowed by the arms moving aorund.

N did everything to not make any sound. He didn't want to die here. He still had so much he wanted to do. He wanted to spend more time with his friends, with his sister, confess and date Y. Well, that last part may never happen, but he just wanted to have a happy life. The overlapping loud sound of claps, punches and scratches on different surfaces made N's heart jump. That... Thing was going to find him, no doubt. He didn't know what to do, if there even was something he could do. The boy didn't think so.

He was stupid for thinking he had changed. He was just as weak as he has always been. He wasn't as strong as his brother, as fast as his sister, as smart as his leader or as agile as his squadmate. He wasn't anything. Just a below avarege that made the mission worse, their lifes worse. No matter how much he tries, no one likes him... It was never how he acted, it was always who he is. The problem was always there, he knew it. Just refused to see. The unbearable sound of the countless hands approached his locker. It punched, slapped, pushed and pierced the metal box N was in. The boy just crouched and waited his death with tears in his eyes. He hoped θ and Ω could find a better teammate.

Before N felt any pain, a loud bang woke him up from his hole. He opened his eyes to see the locker he was in completely ravashed and destroyed, very little of it left, but that wasn't what N was looking at. The sprout of arms was quickly moving around in a small ball, as if trying to hit a mosquitoes. It tried to grab onto anything it could, before something came from inside the unending wave of hands. It was a drone, one N knew very well.

Ω growled as his claws ripped the flesh of the mutated worker. He was pushed out of it's body, but the animalistic drone was far from over with it. He brought his PKM's out and started to shoot both of them at the body. The fire power of both guns mowed down through the hands and arms that moved to protect the body, but more and more bursted out of the worker's back, no sign of it ever stopping. In the pace one arm was mowed down, other three came out. What was once a desperate defense, was now overwhelming the bullets.

The worker screamed in pain as a sudden wave of arms ripped the metal from the back of its head to the heels. All of them focused on pushing through the stream of attacks. Ω didn't have time to react as a flower of hands grabbed his head and smashed it on the ground, creating a crack on impact. The monster then flinged the disassembly to the side, destroying the wall. Ω was able to stand his ground, but was still dizzy from the force of the attacks, his vision being only blurs of what he could only guess were his surroundings. Through the blur, he was able to see something big approaching him and in instinct he moved away, dodging a giant fist formed of other small ones.

N watched as his friend fought that monster head on, but why? Was it because of him? Was he willing to risk his life on someone like him? Why? It wasn't worth it. There was nothing to gain on keeping him alive. A scream of pain snapped N of his thoughts, seeing that Ω had been hit by the worker once again. He was struggling in this fight, he wouldn't win being outmatched like that. N quickly got up, not even thinking about it. This was no time to think of worth, it was time to act. His friend was dying, he couldn't just sit and watch. He had to act, he had to help. Independent of what happens after. He has to help.

The worker had Ω in its grasp, ready to crush his skull, when something sliced its giant arm. The monster screamed in pain and looked at what hurt it, seeing N with his swords out, and X on his visor. The boy took some steps back and looked at his comrade, who slowly got up, recuperating from the beating he had taken. The mutated worker continued to create more arms from it's back, when N looked at Ω.

"This is going to be harder than the last one. Are you ready?"

Ω turned to him with a faint smile, his visor turning to an X as his grin grew to a more maniacal one "Urgryok" He said as he charged foward.

"We both were born for this" N finished as he brought his Barret M82 and shot the enemy where he thought the head would be hidden behind all the upper limbs.

The defense of the worker proved to be useless as the bullet of the sniper pierced through it like nothing. The monster did a quick dodge to the side, avoiding the bullet stopping in it's head. That movement, however, opened the perfect opportunity for Ω to jump in with his claws and attack directly at the core. The animal's claws pierced the chest, but right before reaching the core, were stopped by the extra appendages from the monster, who sent more to the back of the disassembly, ready to kill him.

N dashed foward and changed his weapons to his swords, slicing all the attacking arms with them. The worker pulled Ω's claws out of it's body, throwing him back and using it's arms to grab N in the air, but the animal below turned around and threw his tail at the monster's core. It tried to dodge, but wasn't fast enough, getting hit by the acidic tail. Although not were Ω intended it to hit, the attack still provoked an immense pain to the worker, who let go of N. Ω retreated just in time to avoid an upward strike from the monster. N jumped back right into his side.

"Thanks for saving me" N commented.

"Urrgretere" Ω thanked back.

As the two disassemblers focused back on their enemy, they were whipped by an arm on the face. They were sent flying back to the maze, breaking the wall of the room they were in. Before they could get up, many hands grabbed their limbs, applying force to trap them in place. They watched as the body of the worker hunched and crawled foward, it's metal bending in ways it should not. It's very existence was a mystery, let alone how it did things. Each member of the monster's body acted independently, but they all wanted one thing. The death of their enemies.

As the worker got ready to end the two, something flew by the arms and made it's way inside the monster's back with extreme speed. A clang sound was heard, that was quickly muffled by the worker's scream of pain and agony. A sound the two disassemblies had not heard coming from the enemy until now. It got weak and dropped to the ground, the arms retreating back into the exploded back.

"Damn, it seems that I always miss when it's most important" A voice from further on the corridor said. The two disassemblies looked at it to see θ walking to them with his revolver in his hand.

"θ!" "Urta!" Both said in unison. The leader greeted them with a small smile.

A short lived smile as he aimed his revolver and shot against the worker, who shakingly got up and charged against the new enemy. θ changed the trajectory of his bullets to hit weak points on the monster, but none worked as they were all blocked by the moving arms around it. Before the greek leader could react, he was pinned to the wall by the countless arms. The main body of the worker completely exposed to him. It's blank visor staring directly at his soul. It opened its mouth, ready to feast on a new meal.

"Surprise!" θ acted as quickly as he could, putting a sawed off double barrel shotgun on the worker's mouth and shooting it. The thing was able to slightly move to the side, but the shot still took half of its head off, splattering it across the whole ceiling. The scream the creature released was high enough to interfere with θ's system, while the others just thought it was loud. It quickly and weakly released the leader and started to run away from the three hunters.

θ dropped to his knees and looked at the fleeing monster "Ω, quick! Circle and ambush it. It's weaker and we'll be right behind!" The animalistic drone nodded and ran ahead, following his prey. θ and N got up and followed suit in a much slower pace. The pilot limping due to his injury, something that the leader noticed. As they passed by some worker corpses leaking oil, θ grabbed one and handed it to his friend.

"Here, take it. We'll need you in a better shape than this to win the fight" N gave a small smile and took the corpse, eating it as they ran. The corridors were in an eerie silence, that was soon broken by the sound of a scream. It was clear the fight had started and it was close. With that information, the two picked their pace up, going as fast as they could to help their teammate. Soon, a giant mass of arms was thrown to the wall close to them, breaking the wall and burying the body in debris. It was the creature they were chasing. From around the corner they could hear a loud panting. It was clear Ω was having trouble keepping up with the fight alone.

"Urggrgeh" Ω grumbled.

"Better late then never" θ responded. He got close to his greek friend with N and whispered "Sorry for making you wait" Ω smiled and shook his head, waving his hand, dismissing it. 

The three then focused back on where the worker was, only to see hands coming out from the debris, making path for the monster inside, who ressurged with a loud scream of anger and pain. It looked around and locked eyes with the disassemblies. Its body got tense and prepared for another fight or flight response. The Rescue Team also got ready to battle, each bringing their main weapons out.

"The two of you, spread out a bit, but not too much. It's a savage solver in its early stages. It won't think and doesn't know how to use the solver powers yet. Let's use that to our advantage. We're going to help each other and be careful to not get hit. Okay?" θ said in a commanding tone. Both squadmates noded their heads "Then let's do the first move. We're going to push this fucker to the wall and strike it down"

Just as θ finished, Ω charged foward in high speeds. The solver charged against him, only to be met with a sniper bullet aimed at its head. The worker was able to dodge it, but the animal was already in its face. His claws entered deep inside the head, making the creature scream and wave its arms around. One of them hit Ω, sending him to the ground. The sound of his fall was enough for the solver to know where to attack, but none of them reached the target, being shot down by θ's revolver, who did a quick run to the fallen friend and activated his ring. He used it as a shield to protect the two of them, while N tried to shoot the main body from afar and dodging some attacks sent to him.

"Even wounded its relfexes are good" N complained. Shooting the body more, but missing all bullets due to the worker's evasion.

"Don't worry, you're doing good. Just stay calm" θ replied as Ω got up.

With their front attacker up again, he immediately jumped back into action, running around the monster, trying to find any weakness, while slicing some appendages from the enemy. N kept trying to shoot at the main body, preventing the worker from doing any considerate movement. While θ kept shooting his revolver, trying to move the bullet out of the arms defense and hit the creature's core. The thing was completely trapped under constant fire, bearly able to move and any flinch meant a new possibility to die. It could only defend itself, but this was bound to end. It was going to die, it was going to die...

No, it was not.

As θ shot another bullet, trying to move it around the arms, one of them sliced the string. The leader cursed in his mind, finding this more irritating than anything. He could bearly understand the movement of energy around the body, being too chaotic to pin point anything. However, it wasn't time to let emotions take control. He had to think. He aimed his revolver and took another shot, but as he focused on the arms' movements, in the middle of all the confusing energy, he understood one, realizing how bad he had messed up.

One arm grabbed the string of the bullet and pulled the disassembly towards the mass of weirdness. N and Ω stopped what they were doing to look at what was happening, being caught off guard. The solver grabbed θ with all the strength it had. He tried to squirm out, but it was useless, its grip was too strong and overwhelming to be fought against. From its back a thick amalgamation of arms emerged, blossoming in an hypnotic view, like a flower. The hands that overlapped the other being the petals, while the pistil was a large, blue solver symbol. All the disassemblers were shocked, their eyes hollowed in an instant. Nothing could be done, even if they tried. The symbol quickly decreased in size, creating a small black ball, that as soon as it was created, it exploded. A circular explosion engulfed all of the worker's body, alogside θ's arms, leaving only his hands behind.

θ fell to the ground next to his hands. He didn't scream in pain, he was too shocked for that. The solver had blown a hole up to the surface and down to the depths of the crust, creating a shine of sunlight down in this obscure maze. The other two disassemblies were surprised, but one thing worried them more than any other. Were was the solver now? Had it been desintegrated with its own attack?

Before ethey could even make anymore questions, a hand flew from the hole on the ground and grabbed N by the head. Ω tried to free his friend, but was too late. The hand pulled the pilot to the hole, flinging him up to the sky on the surface. θ observed, still frozen in place, but now, for a different reason.

"NNNNNNNNN!" Ω scramed through his broken voice box, sparks emmiting from his neck.

From the hole downward, a rock was lifted, with the solver right below it. When it reached the dark shadows, it threw the rock to the side. The worker was clearly damaged, having black spots all around the body that had missing parts. From it's open back there had only 4 arms coming out now and it wasn't generating any more. It seems that it couldn't produce any more, at least for now. Ω quickly advanced in rage, sending one of his claws towards it's core. The monster dodged the attack and created some distance between them, avoiding the swing of the acidic tail. One of the arms was sent towards Ω, who sliced right through it, but as the oil bursted from the open arm, another one came from its shadow, grabbing the disassembly by the neck.

θ was still on the ground. He didn't feel pain from his missing arms, it never hurt him. He, however, could not face the N standing in front of him. He had a burned body and blank visor. The pilot just stared at him, not saying a word. The leader couldn't bare to face him on the moment and probably never again. Another one died in his hands. He killled another friend. It was his fault one more time. Behind him was a female disassembly. Even after all the time, he still couldn't face her. How could he, she would never forgive him for what he did. There was no way he would. She didn't deserve it, yet he did. N didn't deserve it, yet he did. He's their leader, why can't he save them? Why can't he face them?

"Because it's your fault" Said the female voice behind him. That angelic and annoyed tone of hers that he hadn't heard ever since the accident "Isn't it... The

ta! Urta!" Said a broken voice θ knew for a long time. He quickly looked aorund and saw Ω being chocked by the solver. His eyes hollowed, before turning into a X.

The fallen and dismembered disassembly got up and stumbled. He didn't have arms, no weapons to do anything, but he couldn't just let his friend die. Not another one. He grabbed both his hands with his tail and activated the ring of one, switching to the blades mode. He qucikly charged towards his friend, slicing the hand that was chocking him. The solver growled and sent the last two arms towards the leader, but θ jumped over them and sliced them. The creature tried to use the solver, but the greek leader was nowhere to be seen. He was already too close. The worker couldn't react as θ slashed its chest, making the monster stumble closer to the hole it created. With a few tears in his visor, θ continued attacking. He didn't want to lose anyone more, but that was inevitable. So the least he could do was avenge them. The disasembly leader got ready to deal the last blow directly to the creature's core, but as the attack got close, the solver prepared to use his powers. A symbol formed on θ's torso, a smile appearing on the worker's face. Right before it pushed the disassembly away, something flew by the hole, for a split second, the flying object was able to take a shot and take the monster's hand off. Deactivating the solver power and giving the opportunity for the killing blow.

However, he wasn't fast enough. The solver was pushed down the hole, avoiding the killing blow, but being thrown on the sun. As the worker burned in the sunlight it had created, a shadow moved in the hole. Casting a saving glance on the monster. It fell to the ground with a loud bang. θ and Ω observed as the monster limped to a corridor on the end of the hole. It seemed like this maze could go even lower than what they were in, but that didn't matter to them. On the end of the hole, they could see N's body. Neither of them wasted any moments. θ flew down immediately, while Ω followed behind, pouncing on the walls with all the strength he had left. They reached his body, laying on the ground, unmoving. He had wounds from the fights and black spots throughout the whole body, some parts were even burning from the sun. His visor was blank, no light in any part of his body.

"Quick, bring him to the corridor" θ said, grabbing one of N's arms with his tail. Ω obeyed and dragged the pilot's body to a safe location. There they looked at the body of their teammate. They watched it, expecting something. Ω started to shed tears, while θ just stared at the body blankly, waiting for any sign of life, energy, anything.

Suddenly, a spark. N's visor lit up, his light weak, but there. Ω was quick to hug him, but θ just kept staring, no emotion visible in his visor. N could bearly see, but those eyes scared him a little.

"H-Hey... A-Are you mad at m-me θ?" He asked just above a whisper.

"Mad?" The leader responded, cracking a smile "Mad for what?" He started to laugh as small tears made down his cheek.

"T-That's better" The pilot said with a smile of his own.

Their moment was cut short when a growling sound echoed through the corridor. It caught the attention of all three disassemblies. θ's stare snapped to the direction of the sound, his hatred being visible. Ω released his friend from the hug and growled in annoyance.

"As much as I want to take a nap now. We still have a job to do" θ announced, getting ready for another battle, even in his state "You rest N. Me and Ω are going to take care of this" He said as both of them started to walk down to the darkness of the hallway.

N wacthed as they left him behind. Once again, he couldn't do anything. He was going to be left outside for his lack of abilities. He gritted his teeth. He didn't want this, not again. He would follow them until the very end. He will only stop when his core is pierced out of his body. Before then, he will show everyone that he can be strong. He can do what he wants.

"I'm coming too" N said as he slowly got up. His body trembled and oil gushed from his open wounds. θ and Ω turned around with surprise that quickly turned into worry.

"N, you can't. Your state is too critical for you to be even moving" The leader warned.

"Urrgrety huhgrew, uurrrehuy!" Ω complemented.

N gritted his teeths "I don't care. You two are injuried too, critically even. So why can't I go? Because I'm too useless? Weak? Just say it damnit! I want to help, I can help. So let me do it. I don't want to lose you guys knowing I could have done something to save you two!" He said with tears in his visor. The other two disassemblies looked at their teammate. They weren't shocked. They knew, to an extent, that N felt that way, but seeing him so determined even in this state still impressed them.

θ sighed and approached the boy. N averted his gaze, afraid of what his leader would do, but instead of the punch he would receive for talking back, he felt something around his waist. It was θ's tail lifting him up "You're too damaged to walk properly, so don't complain about this" He said as he started walking down the corridor with Ω right behind. N couldn't help, but form a smile in his face.

They slowly walked through the corridor. It was similar to the ones above, with the grey walls giving to time. Although there were still some white spots around, a small memory of what this place once was. Differently from the other maze, these corridors had various piepes on the ceiling, all leading to the same place. They were probably going to the main source of power of the colony. As they walked, θ couldn't shake the strange feeling that there was something fishy up ahead. It wasn't just his sensors that were sensing the entrance of the enrgy plant, but also something more that he couldn't understand.

The leader stopped and placed the pilot on the gorund, throwing both his hands in front of them. The other two were confused, but θ spoke first "Here, I want you two to take one of my rings and put it on your fingers" The two were confused and as they were going to ask something, θ spoke first, once again "Now" He said in a commanding and menacing tone, one that he rarely used. The two picked the rings from his severed hands and placed it in their fingers. From up close, they could see that both of them had a triangle with a line in the middle. N didn't understand, but Ω knew what it meant.

"W-Why do you want us to wear your rings θ?" N asked with a bit of difficulty.

"I'm going up ahead by myself. After I give you the command, you'll come. Okay?" He ignored the pilot's question.

"Urrregreeaf!" Ω protested.

"Yeah, you don't have your arms. You can't go in there defenseless, it's suicide" N reinforced.

"Look here you two. I'm the most useless here in the moment. Both of you can do something, I can't. Losing me here won't make any difference and I'll just make sure the road up ahead is safe, it doesn't mean I'm actually going to die. So you don't need to worry" θ tried to calm them down.

"Then why did you give us your rings?" N asked.

The leader averted his gaze "Just in case" He whispered "Both of you wait here. When I give the order, you go. Don't try anything funny. If you want to come out of here alive, that's the chance we'll get" θ finished, turning around and walking to the end of the corridor.

"Urrgret" Ω said with worry.

"Don't worry, I'll be safe" The greek leader reassured with a false confidence.

θ walked foward, no fear in his mind as he accepted whatever came at him. He reached the end of the corridor and the entrance to the power room. Inside was a giant nuclear reactor, giant circular towers went up above the ceiling. An intense heat emanated from the room. There were some plataforms around the place, hanging from the ceiling, with some big water tanks around, as if those would be of any help if anything happened. The solver, however, was nowhere to be seen.

The absence of the enemy worried the disassembly, but there wasn't much he could do. He had to risk it now. θ entered the room, taking a look aorund. On the disatnce a blue glow appeared as the disassembly noticed the gas tanks close to the door with solver symbols around. He jumped away, but wasn't fast enough to dodge the explosion that was created. His left side was caught in the explosion, damaging his left leg. He fell to the gorund as he screamed in pain.

That was enough warning for all three drones in the vicinity. The solver jumped from his hideout onto one of the plataforms hanging from the ceiling as Ω and N ran inside the room at the fastest speed they could. The animalistic greek drone didn't waste any time in charging to attack the solver, being too fast for it to trace him. Ω jumped on the same plataform his enemy was and started attacking him, but it was able to dodge all of the attacks, even if it couldn't attack back either.

As the fight was happening, N limped to θ "Are you okay?" The boy asked.

θ, even through the pain of having his left side burned, looked at N "What the fuck are you doing, focus on the fight!" He screamed.

N quickly turned around and pulled his Barret M82 out. He searched for the solver and found it having a spar with Ω, none hitting each other or doing any advance. N started to calculate the worker's movement, until deciding where he would shot. With enough confidence, he stabilized his breath, aimed and pulled the trigger. The recoil of the gun was strong enough to break the last parts that functioned in his arm, making it so that he wouldn't be able to use it again.

As the two last functioning drones fought, Ω made another advance that missed. The solver used this opportunity to activate his powers and aim it at the disassembly, that this time couldn't find a way out of the situation. When, suddenly, a bullet went flying directly at its head. The creature's eye locked on the bullet, creating a small shield that bounced the bullet off to the other side. N's eyes hollowed, seeing no way out of this situation. θ on the other hand, smiled.

"Lucky bastard"

N followed the bullet as it bounced off the wall, then towards a water tank, then to another water tank, before redirecting towards the solver once again. The pilot couldn't believe on what happpened. He thought only Z could pull this type of trick out, but here he was, being the one who did this. The worker did not expect the bullet to come back, catching it off guard. The bullet hit its shoulder, tearing it off from its body. Ω took the opportunity and plunged his claws inside the monster's chest, reaching the core he so wanted to. He ripped the core out and threw it inside his mouth, biting and swallowing it in an instant. The body of the solver flickered its last light, before falling limp on the ground.

The room entered in a complete silence. Not even the non-sentient machinery dared to make a noise. After some time, N started to laugh, realizing they had really won. Ω fell to his knees, too tired to do anything, while θ stayed laying on his spot, the burning having ended now.

"We really did it!" N cheered.

"Yeah, yeah. Let's take a little nap now. I'm too tired to do anything" The leader said, closing his eyes. That's when he heard a strange thing. His eyes shot open and he looked around. Spotting something that chilled his, recently burned, body "OH FUCK NO!" He screamed in panic. This took both his teammates attention, who looked at him "We'll have to get out of here really quick. This place is going to explode soon!" He pointed to one of the circular towers that had a crack and was leaking its content to the outside. This nuclear power  plant was about to explode and they were right in the center.

N was quick to act, getting up despite the pain and grabbing θ with his tail and flying to get Ω with his arm. He started to fly out of the room, quickly making to the hole directing to the surface. He went up, while θ released his wings. N understood what he meant and when they flew out of the maze, finally being able to feel the fresh of air of the night that had just started, the pilot released his leader that started to fly on his own.

"Let's get out of here, before we're blow to atoms!" He said, flying in the direction of the pod with N and Ω following right behind.

They were able to reach their pod before any explosion happened. N wondered if any explosion was going to happen in the first place. Ω didn't really care, only wanting to get out of this planet. θ, however, insisted that the nuclear reactor was going to explode and screamed for N to hurry up before they get hit by the afterblast. As N started to get ready to fly out of the planet, a giant explosion happened, shaking the entire planet in its wake. Even from miles away it was still fully visible. As the Rescue Team made their way out of the planet, θ observed as the explosion was able to burn the entire atmosphere that planet had, transforming the once lively planet in a burning rock that quickly froze into a snowball. The sight surprised the three disassemblers that watched with relief that they made their way out of it before the disaster.

Now that they were safe and done with everything, they could relax. That's when θ remebered something.

"Oh, just so you two know. When my arms regenerate I'll take my rings back" He warned.

"What? But you gave them to us" N exclaimed.

"In case I died. I didn't. So I'll take them back"

"You'll have to fight me for it" N showed his tongue to θ.

"Do you really want to fight me?" He asked in a serious tone.

N turned back to the engine of the pod "No" He said in a defeated tone.

"That's what I thought" Ω could only laugh as he got ready to sleep on the ground.

Chapter Text

In the complete silence of the spaceship hangar, having all four of them located there, quite a rare occurrence, comes roaring from the sky a fifth one, boarding the foreign drones and their young teammate. The ship pierces the atmosphere and thrusts against gravity to slow its momentum, almost taking flight again, but landing perfectly on the ground. The solid ground beneath prompted the mechanism to start shutting down as the door opened, its three passengers jumping out with a few bruises and clearly tired, but with a smile on their faces nonetheless.

"Nice landing" θ compliments his pilot.

"I know, right?! Thanks" N enthusiastically said "I never got one of these before. W is gonna be so proud of me" He continued with a big smile on his face.

Ω on the side, hunched more than normal, weakly giggles, before groaning "Uurrgrhg"

"Yeah, you should go to sleep, you're injuries were bad. Pass by the yard before or after a nap, just to make sure. You too, N" Their leader told them.

"Urrgrhg"

"Yeah, you're injuries were bad too. Why don't you come with us?" Both said, pressing the other disassembly.

"Because I have to fill the report before. I'll pass by the yard after I'm done"

"Urrg"

"Yeah, I don't believe it either" Both disassemblies suspected "I bet you're just trying to turn our attention somewhere else, just so you can escape the yard" N points a finger at the green haired disassembler.

θ looks at him with a smile "You were always horrible with bets, despite stokes of lucks" He waved his hand "You two go do your things, I'm going to G. You two believing it or not" He said before walking through the door, but stopping right before it "Also, don't forget our little party we're going to have" He said with a smile, then he walked away.

The still relatively new captain, despite being in this HQ for about three months already, walked to G's room. All of this bureaucratic thing with their missions was always a chore, even back in his HQ. He could never do anything without having to ask the alpha. It was so limiting. Only if you were an elite did you have more freedom, but he was never the type to aim for such high goals.

As he was walking, two disassemblers stopped him "Hey, θ" Called a male voice. It was C, alongside D "Now that you're back, there's been a rumor going around that your team was able to defeat a solver. Is that right?"

The greek drone sighed, before turning to the two "Yeah, pretty much. Me, N and Ω, all three of us took down a solver. Although, I only made a loose plan to corner it, those two are the ones that killed the beast"

"Humble, isn't he?" D says with a smile.

"Humble or not, the fact that N of all drones was able to help take down a solver is impressive. You might be the first drone I know to ever complete what I'd call a sisyphean task" C joked. His wife then gave him a light blow on the shoulder with a strict face.

"N is a great fighter" θ immediately responded with a deeper voice, before showing a light smile "He just needed the right hands to teach him"

"Are you saying that T is a bad captain?" Came a voice from the side. It was X, walking alone with her eyepatch.

"Wouldn't call him a bad captain, but certainly bad for N. Although keeping M on a leash is a merit of its own" The greek drone said.

The ninja hummed in understanding, before looking at his face "I heard about the news. Congratulations on your victory"

"Oh, thanks. It was certainly a victory, but three disassemblies against a single solver was an unfair fight. Glad none of us came in with too many injuries, though"

"Yond, in itself, is a most wondrous accomplishment, mine own sir" Came a male voice that instantly attracted both X and D's eyes. It was L with his hands resting on his back "A fine achievement, w'rth high praises"

"I think I understood a bit of it. I'll take it as a compliment, I think. Thanks" θ responded.

"That, it was. F'r thee, po'r in knowledge to und'rstand" The old english speaking drone said, rolling his eyes. X averted her gaze, a small light coming from her mask, which now covered her whole face.

"I'm pretty sure that was an insult right there, but whatever" The greek shrugged his shoulders "I appreciate all four of you congratulating me, but I need to report the mission to G. So, I'll have to go now. Bye" He waved his hand and walked past them.

They all said their byes and continued with their lives. It was strange to be congratulated by all these people he barely knew, but it was probably just because he was accustomed to his old HQ. Whatever it was, he was happy about it. Almost made him forget about the reason he's here. He thinks as he meddles with his ring. His happy thoughts were interrupted when he felt something weird coming from one of the halls to the cafeteria. That's where N was, he knew it, but another energy signal came in and stopped him. θ was quite sure of who it was, and he would never allow this under his watch.

He knew it of stories and reports, but ever since he came in, he had stopped. θ thought it would be over, but it seems like brotherly bond can never stay away from each other.

The cafeteria was a nice place, despite all the trouble that the disassemblies had between each other, they usually avoided all that here, just so they could have one moment of peace to eat. Today was no different. Small groups formed, with drones talking, laughing and eating to their delight.

It all had to be broken down, though.

The door to the cafeteria opened, just so a body could fly past them all. It fell coldly on the ground and spun on it. The drone was bruised, clearly having already taken a beating. With his black trenchcoat and white hair, M was on the ground, spitting oil from his mouth.

Before he could even react with his damaged sensors, θ came in flying from the door and kicked him even farther into the room. The beaten drone once again skipped across the room, almost lifeless, before hitting a rock pillar, brutally stopping his momentum.

θ quickly followed him, activating his ring and forming two blades, of which he used to pierce M's chest, just off of his core. The blades went through the metal body and stopped at the middle of the pillar, stopping both of them in the same place.

"I missed here and now, but don't think it's your luck, it was my mercy" The greek drone started talking with anger in his tone "If you ever try to do this again, I'll permanently kill you, junkyard scrap" He then got both blades out with some struggle, and united them into one "I hope you remember this message clearly when you wake up" He said as he put the blade on the defeated drone's neck.

"STOP!" A voice echoed through the cafeteria. It was desperate and out of breath, almost pathetic. Everyone knew who it was, N, with his broken visor, stood with trembling legs, holding himself at the doorstep "D-DON'T KILL HIM!" He said.

θ looked at his teammate, then back at the drone beneath him. He really wanted to just slice it, be done. He knew it wouldn't be permanent, but it would deduct from him in the eyes of the company, which was something to look for. However, he just released M and started walking away.

M snickered in between oil "Fo-For a moment... I thought... Y-You had the guts... But you don't" He laughed "You don't have what it takes to kill another disassembly, you weak little wimp" He then started to cackle "You can talk all you want about how I treat N, but you only help him cause you see your weak ass in his shoes!" He continued, amused at his thoughts.

The greek drone just looked at him with a side eye, before continuing. He looked at N and his deplorable state, seeing that the young one was going to talk back "N" He called, slowly raising his hand in a sign to stop "Don't feed into his delusions. He can barely discern what's real and what's myth" The green haired drone continued walking with no care, until he nearly reached the other one "I just don't understand why you wanted me to stop. He's an asshole and would've sent you to the yard"

"He got me by surprise. This wouldn't have happened if he showed up normally" N said "I will defend myself from him, but I don't think killing him will solve anything. It will just make things worse. So, there's no need for it" He finishes.

Right before a response could be muttered, the comms of the facility sizzled, soon bringing the sound of the alpha's voice "ATTENTION EVERYONE, I WANT A MEETING WITH EVERY SQUAD LEADER, SINCE IT'S A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE EVERYONE AT HQ, OVER" G announced, before the comms turned off.

θ sighed "Welp, there goes my peace. I'll be having to go" He said, walking closer to N "If you say that's the way, I'll trust you, but don't think I won't do it if I think it's necessary" He whispered in his year "Anyway, go to the yard and get yourself checked, just be careful, cause M and his suck ups are going to be there too" The leader said his last goodbyes before walking out of the room, being followed by other disassemblies.

After everyone arrived in the meeting room, a small area, but large enough to fit everyone with extra space, with a single table and chairs all around. Furthest from the door was G, with his elbows on the table, resting his head on his hands and some paperwork in front. On his left side were C and D, his loyal friends, both resting on each other. On his right side was J, laying on G with her entire upper body. On the left side of the table was O, standing still in a military pose and X, laying on the wall. On the right side of the table was B, who was sitting on the chair with his arms crossed, and F, who was standing behind him. Opposite to G was θ, with his legs crossed, on his left side was A, who tapped his finger on the chair in annoyance, while on the right side was T, who gave small glares to the newest leader.

The alpha, seeing everyone ready, then clapped his hands to get their attention "Okay. Let's start this meeting. It isn't every month we have everyone gathered up and now that we have an extra leader, this type of occurrence will become even rarer" G started saying, tiredness being clear in his tone, but he still maintained his authority "I wanted to start by asking the new leader, θ, if the rumors of your team defeating a solver drone are true"

The greek's eyes focus on the disassembly in front of him "Yes, they are. My team and I were able to subdue a solver drone in our latest mission"

"Well, that's incredible news. It's not every mission that you encounter one of those, let alone take it down. So, congratulations" G said with a small smile.

B on the side gave a weak groan, to which F quickly translated "B disse 'congrats'"

"That sure is an impressive feat. Congratulations~" J said in a provocative tone that made some males turn their eyes, while X and D just rolled theirs.

O gave him a nod of respect, before returning to his position. T and A didn't say anything, just keeping the same tension they had created when they sat on the greek's side. Keeping a straight face and giving glances, but never speaking a word or muttering a noise.

"When are you going to file me the report, though? I haven't received it yet" G asked as he looked through his papers.

"I was going to write it, but something came in the way" θ responded, receiving a small growl from T.

"Okay, we'll talk about that later" G held the conversation "I want a small report complaint from you all. Starting with A"

"Nothing big on my end, just R acting differently because of some... 'things'" 

"Things?" G retorted.

"Yeah, things. It's not worth delving into it here"

"If you don't delve into it, I won't be able to take the right measures to help, A"

The leader gave a heavy sigh "Okay, okay. It's Ω. Ever since that freak came in, R has started acting more feral. It probably thinks it's being challenged or something"

G looked at θ "As the responsible for Ω, what do you have to say?"

"I have nothing" The greek stated "Ω isn't a freak and knows how to behave. He isn't going out of his way to cause trouble. R is the one who's incapable of basic thoughts"

A immediately got up from his chair and glared down at the greek "You take that back" He threatened.

"When you prove me wrong"

The Roman stared at him with pure hatred, but ended up doing nothing, just standing with an ugly face.

"Okay, you two, cut it out" G separated them "Both R and Ω have charges under their names, and I know of the complaints about these charges coming from you two, but they remain" The alpha gave a tired sigh and pinched his face "Let's just go to the next one, B"

B gave a small huff, which F was quick to translate "He just said that there's nada especial for us, aside from fewer missiones"

"And whose fault is that? You two get in the yard almost every day. The company simply stopped requesting your team as often" The alpha responded.

"About that, G" X spoke "Is there anything you can do about P? She doesn't get in nearly as much trouble as the other two, but she gets penalized because of them" She asked.

The silent cowboy gave a huff, to which the mexican responded "Yeah, but better not to create a scene here" Making the ninja give them a stern glare.

"Yeah. I'll see if I can do something, but actions outside of teams are hard to be worth in the company's eyes, so don't count on it" The alpha returned to the conversation.

"Okay, thank you" X gave a little bow.

"Next one is you, my little cutie pie. Any problems?" G turned to J, still grasping his arm.

"Nothing comes to mind, aside from your absence~" She said in a teasing tone, rubbing his arm.

Her boyfriend blushed and averted his eyes, giving a little cough "Well. He he" He gave a nervous laugh while scratching the back of his head "I'll see what I can do about that, love, but work is piling up on me"

J frowns, but just gives a sigh "Okay, do what you need" She leans on him and gives T a smirk, to which he gives a small grin back.

"Okay, about you, X. Was the P complaint everything?" He continues the meeting.

"Yes, my team is perfectly fine" The ninja responds.

"Awesome, now, T. Anything?"

"I wouldn't have anything" The tall drone started "If it wasn't for someone sending my only teammate to the yard some minutes back" He says in a clearly aggressive tone.

"It wasn't without a reason" θ quickly shot back.

"Oh yeah, and what would that reason be!?" T retorted.

"He was going to send N to the yard if I didn't get in the way"

"Oh, was he!?" The tall roman responded without thinking, earning a small lifted eyebrow from the greek "Okay, he probably was. That doesn't mean you had to send him to the yard. My missions requests already got diminished after being turned into a duo, now I won't receive a single one for months"

"Yeah, talking about that" G interrupted "You were going to receive a special mission, but since M is going to the yard, guess that goes to someone else"

T stared dumbfounded at the alpha, before returning with anger to the greek disassembly "I demand compensation for this! Special missions are rare and irrefutable!" He screams.

"I'm not going to compensate anything. I'll pay my fine and that's it" θ responded without much aggression.

"Oohh, no you won't" The tall drone said with a sharp smile.

"Oh, I will. Maybe next time, teach your teammate better manners and he won't get into trouble"

"Oh, please! My teammate is M! M the fucking psychopath!"

"A good leader makes a good team" θ rested his elbow on the chair and his head on his hand.

The tall drone dashed forward to his face with fuming sounds "Are you insinuating you're a better leader than I am?"

The room fell into silence upon T's question. No one dared to put a finger in that conversation, despite the unending lack of sounds, until θ responded "Yes. I am a better leader. N's the proof" He turned to G "How many underperformances did N have in his last month with T?"

Everyone in the room looked to the alpha, waiting for his answer, who started with a tired sigh, remembering the old times "Too much. Too many times" He said with a hand on his face, getting angry from just remembering.

"And how many times did he underperform in the last two months that he was in my team?" θ continued.

"I don't have the exact numbers, but it was the complete opposite. I barely got any complaints from him" G said with regrowing hope.

"Oh, but I know" The greek continued in a corebeat "I remember the exact number. He under-performed twice, and that's because one of them he was sick. Even then, both of these were only between 3% to 7% below the expected, while in your team" He looked directly at N's old leader "He was constantly below 30%. So, I guess, there is a difference there"

"Please. Our jobs are completely different" T responded.

"Yes, but it's the leader's job to help his own team, no matter what"

"It's easy for you to do. You're only a rescue team. You don't go to kill. You only hold their hands"

"We're a rescue team that killed a solver in two months, while you're 'killing' team was only able to run away from one in two years"

T immediately jumped onto θ, who didn't even move, but before he could connect his recently deployed claws into the metal flesh, a giant, metal-feathered wing came in the way. It was G, who had acted faster than anyone else, stopping the lunge from the killer machine.

The greek peeked from in between the feathers, looking directly at the roman's eyes "Calm down, T. I'll admit that I got a little heated too, but we shouldn't fight" He said, looking away for some seconds, before returning to the other "I don't think you're a bad leader. Just bad for N, specifically" He averted his gaze "Also, you should do something relaxing, you're clearly stressed" He added.

T rips his claws off G's wings and grumbles something under his breath and sits back on his chair, crossing his arms and looking at the ceiling, avoiding anyone else in the room. The other drones were startled and ready for a fight to start at any moment, all ready to either join or run away from it.

"Okay, that's enough" The alpha states with authority "θ, you're going to pay your fine and I want your mission report before tomorrow night. Anyone else, I'll see into your problems, but that's it. Everyone, go back to what you were doing before and don't cause any trouble" He warned.

After those last words, every disassembly inside got up and left the room, most avoiding the others, following the warning given to them. As θ was walking away, a hand stopped on his shoulder. He turned around to find O looking at him with a serious glare.

"Sorry to interrupt you, but I can't not notice your recent actions. First, you protect N, then you start talking with E. Now you beat M and even started trouble with T. So, this is just speculation, but whatever you're doing, it's not worth making M mad. N is not salvageable and not a good brother and E isn't the same person she used to be. Beating the guy that probably changed her isn't going to make her date you" He said with almost no emotion in his voice.

The greek drone gave a small laugh "I'm not doing this for any of that. I have my reasons and my problems, M isn't one of them, I assure you" He shook his head to the sides, making O cross his arms "However, you did say something interesting, you mean that M 'changed' E?" He asked on a more interested note.

"It's only a theory, but E changed after she decided to hang out with M. Don't think it leads anywhere, she was always a hard person to be around" He uncrossed his arms "Anyways, my warning is given. Don't mess with that guy, he only brings trouble" He finished, before turning around and walking away, passing by J.

The woman approached the greek with a smug grin "So~, you're a bold one, aren't you? Creating trouble right in the alpha's room, in front of him, nonetheless" She chuckled "It's a kind of boldness that I like in a man" She got even closer and passed a hand on his collar "So, what do you tell me? Want some alone time? Away from all the talk and rumors?" She whispers in his audio receptors.

θ put a hand in between her face and his "Sorry. I'm not in the mood, and the rumors ain't so bad, they're quite funny if I say so myself" He giggled "Anyway, I'm going to my room, and no, you're not invited" He said as he walked away.

J gave a soft growl "Bitch" She mumbled under her breath.

"Forget him" T came from behind, sliding a hand around J's waist "That guy's an asshole. Not worth your time"

"Oh, but I bet you are~" She said with a smile, giggling like a high school girl.

Continuing on the hallway, the green haired disassembly walked with his eyes closed, until he opened and looked to his side, where he saw E leaning on the wall with her back, while she crossed her arms. She glared at him, before she stood on her two feet.

"I think this is the first time I've seen a male decline J" She said, walking closer to him, but stopping a great distance away.

θ shrugged "I just ain't in the mood, I think" He said without much care, before turning to her with a small smirk "And you? Aren't you going to congratulate me on my achievements? I thought we were friends" He crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow smugly.

She rolled her eyes "Fuck off, will ya?"

"Oh, I will. I can sense someone very damaged and angry coming from the yard. Probably M wanting some revenge" Silence fell after the news. E was shocked, eyes hollow "I'm going to my room, probably the safest place I'll be. I recommend you to do the same" He says as he turns around and walks to his room.

The german disassembly, still frozen in place, looked at the other walk away. She extended her hand and opened her mouth, but she couldn't say anything, she's too... Out of options. Yes. She isn't scared. No, she isn't. She had nowhere to go. He knew everywhere she could hide. She wasn't safe.

She heard the sound of a door opening and looked at θ's room with him leaning on the entrance, looking directly at her. Not the usual happiness or smugness, a much more somber worry washed his face.

"You want to come?" He asked, much to her surprise "Here, he won't be able to get you"

It didn't take a second and his door had already closed, protecting both of them from the sounds of the corridor. It sounded like an animal with rabies. It didn't speak anything comprehensible, it probably wasn't. Just sounds of rage. He was fast, the greek had to give him that, his legs held power too, but nothing was worth having to live with him.

The animal quickly comes to his door and starts banging the door "θ!!!!!" He screams from the top of his lungs, banging and punching the door.

E was shaking on the ground, her eyes darting around the room, but there was nowhere to hide. She trapped herself, again. That's when she looked at the side of the door. θ was motioning for her to stay quiet, putting a finger in front of his lips. They weren't supposed to make any sound, not that she was going to make any to begin with, her throat was almost closed.

The banging continued for some minutes, never having less strength behind the knocks "θ!!!!!! I KNOW YOU'RE THERE!" He screamed one more time, giving some knocks with much less hate behind "Bitch isn't here" He mumbled to himself and took some steps back "E!" He screamed again, walking away.

The woman inside was shaking, tearing up upon hearing her name. She was stuck, she couldn't do anything. He was here, she couldn't escape, she was never going to escape. He made sure of that, and she always fell for it. He was going to know where she was. He's going to enter this room, burst through the door, find her. He... He... She started sobbing, tears falling on the ground, but no sound was made. Her tears were cold, it hurt.

That's when she felt something warm wrapping around her body. It was a blanket "Here, make yourself comfortable. He isn't going to enter this room, I promise you" θ whispered with reassurance in his voice.

It soothed her, just a little, but his eyes still pried on her. She could feel it form across the rooms. He was searching for her.

"He seems to be looking for you in your room. Good thing you didn't go there" The greek continued to whisper as he made his bed "Here, you can sit on here if you want, it's probably better than the ground" He offered "How did he discover your password, though? He needs that to enter your room" He pondered "Or... Did he already have" He gave her a look.

"Shut up" She mumbled under her breath, almost inaudible. She was still shaken, biting her lips, leaking some oil.

"Sorry for the question" He apologized "Here" He offered his hand to her "He's going away, but I suggest you stay here for some more time. I'll see if they put him back on the yard"

E looked at him, her face changing expressions for the first time ever since she entered his room, being a bit more sober and calm. She slowly extended her hand and softly grabbed his. He gave her a gentle squeeze and helped her get up, taking her to his bed, making her lie on the mattress with the blanket on top.

"Stay here and just, calm yourself. You don't need to worry about him, not anymore" He reassured her, before turning to the door.

The woman was much calmer now, sinking into the bed and almost sleeping, but the sounds outside shot her awake. She knew that accent, it was F distorted mexican spanish that she hated so much, but she could also hear M's raspy voice. The unhearable conversation soon turned into a fight, as the mexican got beaten and thrown around. At one point, he was thrown against θ's door, before dodging a punch that completely destroyed the control panel of the door, shooting electricity inside the room from the burst wires. The power inside the room was cut, plunging both drones into complete darkness. After some seconds, the sounds stopped. There was no one outside anymore, at least no one conscious.

θ analyzed the panel, seeing that it was completely broken. While on his bed, E was shaking uncontrollably. The sounds of beating, she felt them. She cried, making a small whimper sound. She covered herself with the blankets, but they weren't enough to protect her. Nothing was enough.