The stitchpunks walked across the Emptiness, the church in flames and ashes flowing up to the sky before slowly falling back down. 18 and 95 helped 17 with her injured leg.
6 and 68 looked at the small pieces of ash falling from the sky, they were almost entranced at how light they were and how they could easily be carried out in the wind. These small black pieces caught their curiosity, stretching out their hands to try to get even the smallest piece.
6 laughed and saw his daughter 68 catch the biggest piece. She and her father frowned when it dissolved in the girls hands.
"Come on 68, 6." 21 called from far up front. They were almost at the library.
A machine watched over them as it carried the remains of the Winged Beast, its dirigible-like body flying across the plains towards the Factory.

"Hmm... I wonder how everything is going..." 0 chuckled as he examined all of the factory, testing out the fabrication machines arms. "Hopefully when they're all through I can reclaim what's rightfully mine..." remembering his older sister figure and thinking of ways to make her his and not 59's.
0 hung from the metal cables on his back but he didn't seem to mind, he could lift himself up to the Fabrication machine's red eye without the use of his or the machine's hands. The dirigible machine flew inside through a hole on the factory's roof, watching his master creating more machines before it flew closer to 0.
"Yes, yes." 0 muttered excitingly, not looking away from his work as the machine flew in. "What news have you brought me?"
The machine only chattered, the Fabrication Machine's arms stretching out as the small machine dropped something in 0's grasp.
0's smile turned into a deadly smirk as he saw what it was. The jaws of the winged beast. He chuckled sinisterly as he crushed the remains in a deadly grip. "I must have underestimated this new doll..."
He threw away the crushed metal violently, "Well, no matter... I'll just need to construct something more deadly... But what?" he wondered, looking around, pondering over and over before he looked at his needle hands. He got an idea.
He immediately went to work, the factory coming to life with drilling sounds, fabric cutting, needles and thread being placed just right.
0's grin grew wider, the burlap skin around his lips breaking ever more so. "Perfect... just perfect..." he raised his arms towards the skies, laughing.
They will learn not to mess with him the hard way.

17 smiled as 59 finished stitching up her injured leg. "There we go." the mechanic boy muttered as he and 17's mom 7 helped her up. The warrior moved her leg around and thanked the mechanic boy. Meanwhile, 21 sat on a book thinking about 0 before he became evil and all the fun times they had together as a family.
1 looked around the library, groaning and moving around uncomfortably. "It's not safe here!" he said, "Stand lookout." the leader ordered the big brute as 8 walked out towards the main gardens of the library. "I'll search out a safer retreat." 18 glared at the leader before looking out to the sky, the library lit by the moonlight. "There will be more... won't there?"
"I sure hope not..." 59 muttered, hugging himself and his sister 95 in fear as both 8 and 1 headed out. 6 and 68 smiled as they almost finished their drawing, their smiles vanished as a giant foot came down and stepped right on their artwork. "W-wha?"
8 saw what he done and apologized, 68 and 6 couldn't be mad at 8 so they forgave him as he smiled at his husband and daughter softy and went outside.
8 kept on walking near the steps to the library; he glanced at the orange light in the horizon, the church still in flames. He sat down on a stone hand and put down his large knife, maybe he could have some fun without 1 ordering around.
8 smiled and made an approving noise as he took out his magnet.
He stared at it in amazement before placing it over his head, his eyes full of static as he moaned softly.
8 giggled and laughed as static filled his optics. Obviously enjoying himself. Unbeknownst to him, this is the one time he would need to be alert on watch.
The twins, 43 & 34 ran towards 18 from the globe with their parents 3 and 4, 34 pulled 43's head towards a book cover as her sister projected 18's impression of the Source.
6 and 68 gasped and looked at their drawing, noticing how it was the same symbols.
It seemed like everyone decided to follow them all inside the globe, their former home during 1's reign of tyranny. 34 & 43 opened up a book that read "Alchemy" on the cover, various symbols and Latin words written inside as they opened the book on a certain chapter.
18 held up the lightstaff to the symbols, 18 and 59 looking it over. "Hmm..." everyone turned to 6 as he held up and stretch out his and his daughter's drawing over the book. "W-wha... what's that?" 18 asked, moving to see. "The source," 6 said, nodding and smoothing the paper.
18 then remembered what 21 and 59 said back when they were looking for what awakened the Machine fused to 0. "The thing that woke the machine. The Talisman." he grew closer to 6 who held his and his daughter's drawing almost in a protective manner. "Go back... G-go back...!" the artist replied.
"Go back to where?" 18 asked, 6 seemed like he knew but kept on speaking gibberish, repeating words over and over again, not making any sense at all except in his mind.
"Dark science." 1 barked from the side, everyone turning to watch him come in, using his arms to add emphasis. "What good does this useless rubbish do us?..." he glared at 18, "Forget it!"
"You know something..." 18 stated, "What do you know?" he said almost in an order, he was tired of the elder not explaining himself.
"I know more than enough." 1 said, waving his hand, his voice more annoyed than ever.
"And I know enough to leave the ancient evils of the humans to molder," the leader walked passed him towards the book, "Look what they left us with..." he was beginning to sound like 0, all that hatred towards the humans, "Leave it be, I say!"
18 looked at him oddly as he went on, "But you..." 1 growled, "Always asking questions... so many pointless questions!" he turned, clutching his fists.
"Always asking questions, probing, pushing! Always wanting to know too much!" he ripped a part of the book's page, holding the piece in his hand.
"What's wrong with wanting to know more and understand!?" "And why can't you trust me!?" 18 yelled back.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?!" 1 glared at 18, "I'll tell you why. Going out there in search for answers leads to certain doom!" "And also the last time we trusted someone he ended up becoming the heart of the machine!" 18 gasped realising that 1 was talking about 0.
59 frowned slightly as 17 bit her lip, glaring and frowning at their leader when he mentioned 0.
1 placed his hand on his chest as he stated, "Sometimes one must be sacrificed for the good of many." Suddenly 17 gripped her spear, flying at the leader in anger. "YOU COWARD!" 1 yelped as her spear rammed into his neck, surprising everyone.
34 & 43 hid behind 59,95 and their parents as 68 hid behind her brother and her dad. "17!" "Stop it , he's not worth it!" 95 called out, she was angry as well but she didn't think physical violence was the answer towards this dilemma they were facing.
1 smirked at 17 as she gently took away her spear away in slight hurt and looked at her girlfriend 68's scared face. 1 rubbed his neck before 17 ran, running far away with gulit on her face for scaring her girlfriend and her friends.18 watched her run with hurt eyes.
1 dusted himself off, "Your path leads us to catastrophe 18..." he said to 18 before leaving the globe. 21 frowned when her father mentioned 0 and ran after her father wanting to reunion him and her dad.
95 sighed and rubbed her forehead, obviously disappointed at the leader. 18 looked over them all soon catching a glimpse of 6 and 68's drawing again. "...we have to go back..."
"Go back? Where?" 59 asked, still shocked at the whole ordeal.
"To the first room..." 18 said, glancing down at the ground before looking at them with all serious. "Where me and your parents woke..."
Everyone was silent for a while before 95 sighed. "Look, 18... 1..." she fought to find the right word. "... he's stubborn... and we have had problems with him before... but there is a soft side to him... it's just rare that people ever get to it..." everyone nodded in agreement.
"But he shouldn't be that cold..." 18 fiddled with the lightstaff. "... It's about 0... isn't it?"
95 gasped at that name, "U-umm..." she gripped her arms and nodded slightly. "yeah..."
18 sighed, "I guess I'll have to learn the rest of it in time, huh?"
Everyone nodded slightly. 95 sighed shakily, "I'm afraid so... h-he..." the sudden flashbacks were making her smile go up her brain, 18 could tell she was remembering something about 0. "... h-he's was once an innocent boy who made us all smile..."
18 then glanced at everyone around him, instantly he knew that something wasn't right, concerning 95. "Something happen to him... right...?" he asked out loud.
Everyone wasn't looking at the new doll, fighting to keep their gaze on the floor as they nodded.
59 held his sister and his parents close to him as they held him and his sister close to them; the same did 68 with her brother and her dad and the twins with each other and their parents. It wasn't just a terrible thing, it must have been something unimaginable, causing them great pain, 18 decided to hold his tongue for their sake.