It may or may not be apparent, but right now I've been writing basically instead of sleeping. The last couple chapters I completely neglected to do any kind of proofreading at all, and I just read back through it. I'm not quite motivated enough (Or sure enough that I'm going to finish this particular story) to go back and fix my mistakes, or make revisions where I think its necessary. Honestly, I hope you've stuck it out to at least read this far into it, as short as my chapters have been(Or seem to me). I hope you've enjoyed the story so far, and now that I'm warming back up to writing, I hope it gets a bit better for you! (Bear with me if stylistic changes occur, and please let me know if I start changing tense, it's a very bad habit I have).

Secondary note; I realized as I read through the first two chapters on my phone, that Italics are not friendly for the mobile app, at this time, so internal monologue will now be marked with '' single quotes, for clarification through all media.

Quote made his way quickly back to King, urgently asking him while still from a distance. "Where is Sue...?!" King looked around, and, seeing Quote running towards him, makes a fist, still wary of the robot. "Why do you need to know...?" Aggravated, He shouts louder, while closer. "They took Toroko...! Misery, and Balrog took her to the Doctor!" Kings eyes shot open, and he growled, his teeth grit tightly. "They what?!" He practically barked the next words, and looked like he was going to take a swing. "Damn them! How could you let that hap-" "You think I would let it happen?!" It was Quote's turn to be angry, and he glowered at King. "I don't know who I am, or why I'm here, but I know that I have to do something important, and I can't think of anything more important than protecting those who are good...! I know Toroko is kind, and good... and I hope that you are, too..." Quote calmed down, his hand un clenching as he took a breath to calm himself. "Sorry..."

King seemed bothered, but obviously didn't want it to show. "The door to the house she's in is locked... Toroko had one of the keys... The other... I don't know... It's somewhere in the cemetery." King faced away, pointing towards the far wall of the cave, and obviously still upset, but no longer yelling, and Quote took his leave. He headed in the direction King pointed, and quickly made it to the door, walking through to the cemetary. There were mushrooms bounding around, mostly harmless little things that would be no bother to him, and other than a gravekeeper with a saber, there seemed to be nothing else in the area. He climbed around, quickly looking around and seeing nothing of import, until he made it to a larger tombstone on a hill in the center.

Here sleeps the noble Arthur,

A true hero to the Mimigas.

The ground in front of the tomb had obviously been disturbed recently, a small patch of recently tilled soil directly under where he was standing. Reaching into the ground, he quickly found a small key, soil falling away as he shakes it, placing it in his pocket. He bounds from the graveyard, jumping from the ledge in the village straight down to the locket home below, and quickly using the key to get inside. A whirring came from the computer that sat against the wall. Glancing at the screen, a portion of text saying "I will if I have to, though..." sits, unanswered. There seems to be no traces of Sue, but there is a teleporter pad in the room, the obvious route through which Sue must have left. Stepping onto the pad, Quote activates its only destination, and the ensuing light blinds him, for a moment, as everything around him changes.

As the shimmer fades, he sees a long, open corridor, filled with massive dragons eggs in the lower portion. Beetles fly to and fro, their sharp mandibles reflecting the light occasionally as they take only brief notice of the intruder. He makes some progress down the way, blasting an occasional as it takes too close a notice of him, turning with open jaws towards him and advancing. All the other beasts seemed to completely ignore him, and he only occasionally had to slow his progress.

How am I going to find her...? Quote tries to think ahead, and make sense of what's going on, but he has very little to go on. I know I have to find her... and I have to do... something else... but what is it...? A large beast catches his eye, and a mimiga stands in front of it. "You think you can take me on, you big brute? Go ahead and try it!" The tiny mimiga makes jabbing motions in the air, and quickly gets a thorough beating by the beast as it completely ignores her, pucking her up and leaping down the egg corridor with incredible speed, outpacing Quote by a longshot as he races to try and keep up.

That must have been Sue...! She can help... she has to be able to help, or know something, or know someone who knows something... anything to help me figure out why I'm here, and what I need to do...

with less caution, Quote blasts away at the beetles as they start to swarm him, further into the corridor. 'There must be a nest towards the end, they seem to be more aggressive now...' He launches himself over a rather large gap between two egg cases, and stops promptly by a doorway. Stepping inside, he sees rows and rows of computers, a bed, and a small lift at the end of the room. Glancing sidelong at the computers, they display diagnostic information, and diagrams of dragons eggs, listing temperatures, electrical information, and incubator status. the majority all seem similar, but he notices a few glowing red in the dim lighting.

The main terminal, next to him, displays entirely different information for him.

"I can't get to Egg -00- with that barrier up, and the terminal to unlock it was placed in egg -02-, one of the failed incubations. It would normally be no problem, but with the wildlife occupying this place so thoroughly, I could never make it underneath to it..."

Quote glances down at the computers, and decides to give them a check. That information had saved him quite a bit of trouble, to say the least, so he decided to give them all at least a passing glance. They all listed similar statistics, normal statuses, and the like, other than the red terminal on his floor, for egg -04-, which was decidedly terminated or failed. He rode the lift to the upper floor, and found the rest of the terminals unhelpful. There was, however, a chest at the end, rusted completely shut. He appraised it from close, and his sensors inform him that it was just around ten years old, and hadn't been opened in about as much time. It was no trouble opening it for him, though, and what was inside made this detour completely worth the time.

'A rocket launcher. How strange... what happened ten years ago...?'

He straps it to his back, and continued on his way, leaving the computers behind as he leaps across to the next incubator block, mentally noting the eggs as he passes them.

'Egg -05-, climb the barrier, blast the swarm... jump the gap, egg -04-, dodge the beetles...'

A blast of green zips by his head, nearly striking him head on as he lands on egg -03-, quickly following it to the source; a huge, monster of a beetle, it's maw open and dripping a viscious-looking fluid as green light glows further down its gullet, growing bright as another green orb comes launching at him. He rolls to a kneeling position, brings the rocket launcher from his back, and sends a single rocket launching straight towards it, hitting it dead center through its open jaws, sending green guts and black husk in every direction as it explodes inside its throat.

'I need to be more careful. That was a powerful blast for a biological weapon. Who knows what other creatures I'll encounter that can attack like that...'

He jumps to egg -02-, and climbs slowly down, a white wisp flying past his face as he leans towards the access tunnel underneath. Every sensor built into him alarms all at once, and he barely avoids having his entire head taken off by it. "Holy shit!" He falls back and smashes into some equipment, sending a small gathering of beetles his way that are quickly dispatched.

'What the hell was that thing?!'

It wizzes by again, his sensors alarming slightly less now that he was a little further from it. Whatever it was, biological or mechanical, it had energy levels off the charts. It emitted every form of energy he could sense other than radioactive; electrical, thermal, and solar, in such massive quantities that it would probably completely vaporize him if it made any contact with him. It passed by again, having obviously come back from where it came. Each time it passed was a decent amount of time, fifteen seconds or so, and he would only have to travel about ten feet in the tunnel to reach the access point of the egg, so he should have plenty of time, so long as nothing held him up...

As soon as it passes by again, he jumps down and darts straight towards egg -02-, jumping up into the access platform with plenty of time to spare. He climbs up into a room built into the egg itself, and uses the terminal to deactivate the shield, wherever it may be. Quote waits for the energy form to pass again, and jumps down... to see green light. he drops to the floor just in time to dodge the beetles blast, then fires repeatedly into its face, running towards it and punching hard when he reaches it, eliciting a shrill squeal as its wings stop fluttering and it is launched backwards, just far enough that he can run past and climb up. The moment he clears himself out of the way, the body of the beetle immediately disappearing with a loud fizzle.

'Too close... Way too close...'

He climbs back on top of the incubator blocks, and makes his way to egg -01-, and then the ledge beyond, where an open doorway of sorts led to a large room beyond the corridor, and inside he saw the white beast.

"No one can do anything to master's eggs! They are his! The eggs are not yours, or anyone elses!" Quote groans. Sentient... but just barely. He didn't want to have to kill the brute, but combat was certainly inevitable. He drew the polar star and took one step forward, opening his mouth to speak- "NO! YOU WILL NOT TOUCH! NOT YOURS! MASTERS EGGS ARE FOR MASTER!" It charge towards him with incredible speed, and he barely launches himself over it in time to avoid a huge punch that drives into the ground. He twirls himself mid-air, firing onto its head, and neck, and into the big brute's back before landing, and leaping backwards to avoid the vengeful backhand it sends at him. The strike leaves it off balance, though, and Quote uses the opportunity to launch himself at it, and uses both feet to kick into the monster's chest, sprawling him onto his back as Quote himself rises high into the air, and launching a volley of five missiles downwards.

The ensuing cacophony of noise blurs into static as it rises to volumes his sensors are not equipped to handle, the blackened fur and bleeding body left on the ground in a heap. It was... unfortunate... that something of intelligence had to perish, but... It was too strong. The first punch had made a crater half as big as his body in the solid metal that formed the floor. That thing could have easily pulverized him if it had gotten the opportunity. Even more unfortunate, however, is what Quote saw happen to the bloody, blackened heap.

'No... oh god...'

The body changed, slowly, and began to become smaller, and smaller, until it was no larger than... a mimiga... It looked just like one, actually, other than the burns and blood... Somehow a mimiga had been changed into an incredibly strong, fast, and bloodthirsty monster. Quote dropped to the floor next to it, a soft gurgle escaping it as it's lungs stopped filling. "What did this to you?" He lowered his head, and grit his teeth. He didn't know the poor creature, and he didn't have to. He had met a few mimiga already, and knew them to be mostly docile creatures, certainly not violent, and absolutely not deserving of this kind of fate. He swore he would never kill another creature as pure as this again. Not if he could stop it...

He gathered himself, though, and stood up, taking a deep breath to calm himself as he made his way to the building just behind him. Inside he found the small mimiga, Sue, he thought to himself, lying on the ground, but breathing. He approached it and placed a hand softly on her shoulder, shaking gently.

With a start, She cried out and brought her paw up to strike him in the face... and hurt herself. "Owwww...! What the...?!" She scurries to her feet, backing up from Quote as quickly as possible. "Killer robo-..." She stops in the middle of the sentence, and watches him. "Wait... there aren't supposed to be any more robots on this island... what are you doing here?"

Quote watches as 'Sue' tries to make sense of his existence, and decides he had best speak up, even though he himself didn't really know anything. "I don't know why I'm here... I only woke up just today... But I know I have an important mission, whatever it might be." He nods resolutely. "And I also know that toroko needs my help!" Sue's eyes widen when he says that, and runs up to him, grabbing his shoulders. "What?! What happened?" "She was taken, by the witch, Misery." Sue lowers her head and speaks softly, almost too low to hear. "She was the only one who was nice to me... And now the doctor..." She stops, and bounds past him, surprisingly agile as she moves.

"I have to help her!" Quote turns to follow, but immediately can tell he won't be able to keep up. She yells back at him. "Follow me if you really want to help!" He tries, and she's in sight for a short while, but quickly loses her as the beetles her commotion brings out turn their attention to him, forcing him to blast them away. He eventually reaches the teleporter that had brought him to the egg corridor, and steps inside; Sue must have gone on without him.