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Subspace stood in the lab assigned to her by her higher ups in Korblox Administrations for quite some time now. Memories still stained that room, though why bother changing her workspace?
Memories of what led to everything going on now. If that day had just been different, if she had just never met that cursed medic, she would’ve been fine. She would’ve had so much time to reach her full potential, to make Blackrock truly the greatest faction, to innovate—
Forget it. That’s a hypothetical, a different universe. This one did not dare grace her with that.
She turned on the harsh, fluorescent lighting in the room, ignoring the lack of sunlight outside, a sign for her to return home and get some rest. Rest was for those who did not actively hear the clock ticking down, for those unmotivated to reach their true potential in time.
That was not how she was raised. She was raised to expect no less than perfection, not from herself, and not from anybody else.
She stepped further into the room, pulling a special Biograft model out of its stand, temporarily holding it up as it was deactivated, unable to keep itself upright. The Gamma model, the only one in the whole, wide world. A Biograft she had created just for herself.
If she can just… If she manages to finish this project in time, she can do everything she plans to, she can do so much more than just one type of energy crystal and some robots. She can invent so much more, reach such greater feats for science, for innovation.
If she only finishes this before the due date.
Though, this was different than all the other timed assignments she’d been given. Instead of knowing the period of time given to her for each milestone, she had no idea. Nothing to judge off of but the progression of the Rot on her body, slowly making her more and more useless, slower, weaker…
And when she failed to reach the given time limit, she’d be disappointing. Though this time, she wouldn’t. If she gave out before completing the Gamma Biograft, then that’d be it.
She’d be gone, and all her potential with her. All her future innovations gone unfinished, all her creations left un-updated, incomplete: Failing to become what they could’ve been just like their doomed creator.
She wouldn’t stand for that. If she can just finish this one thing. One Gamma Biograft. She can create an escape, be the maker of her own continuance, deny her finale.
She can construct a robot so great she can transfer over to it, escape the shell of a body she’s been forced with. She can already use it to increase her stamina, she can go further.
She can perfect this vessel. She can escape her fate.
She just needs this one project to be completed in time.