(Author's Note) I think I'm gonna put my ANs at the end of the story from now on. Whatever. So, yeah. I have a story for you to read (although it's just a prologue so far) and I want you to tell me if it's a good idea or if I should kill it before it breeds and reproduces. D: So... Yeah. I may end up coming back at a later date and rewrite this to make it better. Gad, my thoughts are all over the place. :X
Prologue
Many things had happened once the brain died. The stitchpunks that had died had, somehow, returned to life. Everyone had changed somewhat from the war, but the biggest changes were in 1 and 9. During the following months, 1 had proven to be kinder, gentler, and more understanding than before despite his gruff personality. He had moved them all to a church where he believed they would be safe from the remaining rogue Beasts.
But the most drastic change had been in 9. When 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8 had come back, he tried to stay with them. He made an honest effort to keep his friendship with them but within days he had become silent and withdrawn. He avoided everyone and kept to himself most of the time. 6 was the only stitchpunk he spent time with anymore and that was simply because 6 took no notice of him.
In the year since the BRAIN had been taken out, nature had begun to heal. The changes weren't drastic but they were obvious. It rained, not often but enough to bring forth a few weak, scraggly plants. The rain always fascinated the stitchpunks and they never tired of watching the steady fall of water from the sky. There were green things growing from the ground, though they never lasted for more than a few days. At last, nature was healing itself from the destruction that had been done to it so long ago.
But what no one realized was that there was life. There always had been. While all life had been destroyed on the surface of the earth, some life had escaped the clutches of death by moving deep below ground where the poisonous gas couldn't reach them. The above world couldn't sustain life but underground there was a small colony of survivors.
One of whom had just been discovered by a rogue Beast.