To Choose Between Matters

CH.20

*Most characters in this story belong to the band Steam powered giraffe and neckreductionsurge-ry,

"Why haven't you told me she has been gone you filthy scrap heap!" the Skull shoves the Spine into the wall with both hands clenched shut around his shirt collar. Steam turning into a dark smoke as he burns his fuel faster out of frustration as he pulls back and shoves Spine repeatedly against the wall.

The Spine takes a few blows before putting his hands over Skull's his voice a little raspy from having the wind knocked out of him a bit "I know I should have told you, I understand your mad but I know you wouldn't want to see her the way she was becoming and now that it's been two weeks since she's left I think we are all scared to find her and see what else has happened." He sighs guilt and nightmares have been filling his head while in stasis mode.

The Skull growls and shoves Spine away from him as he walks away. He stops "you haven't looked for her at all?"

Spine leans against the wall a little dinted by the last shove "No! of course we have looked…we have looked all over I think after the night she hurt Jon I think something changed in her…ever since Thaddeus got locked up she has been acting funny."

"Then I guess it's time to make a house call to our good ol' dad huh boys" The Skull glances from side to side at Hare and Jack. He grits his teeth "I'll let ya know what I can get out of him "he turns and points at Spine "You better not keep me in the dark anymore scrap heap."

"No I promise to let you know if anything comes up." Spine nods agreeing to do so.

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Journal entry #480

Dear journal,

It's been awhile since I last wrote but I've been really busy. I have been avoiding all the search parties those bots had sent after me. Alas though I got into that prison pretending to be a doctor and meet with this Thadeus man. You wouldn't believe what he told me, all the nasty things those bots did to him and his boys. He told me that my memory was so fickle from them messing with my mind as I slept and they were being so nice just so they could get close and be able to wipe my memory clean so they could use me as one of their pawns. The thing is journal….I've had a few flash backs these past few days of being in a lab type room and being strapped down. I'm scared… so very scared I just want to know the truth. He did give me a clue though…..there is a house strangely in the same town as where I just got away from…he told me of a hidden passage underneath it that would have something in there to help me…I must find it.

I must.

Brianna 11-05-63

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Months had passed, neither family's could find Brianna and The Skull's and The Spines truce was wearing thin as more feuds would start of whose fault it was and what the other could of done. The families that had almost became on seemed to be pulling apart once again but neither family gave up. Even after questioning Thadeus…thoroughly…. leaving a few new cuts to heal them still had no leads. Only the vial taste in their mouth as they walked away, whilst Thadeus just grinned and laughed at them knowing what would soon befall them all.

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"uuuuh." Scraping and steam escaping a tired boiler echoes through a pathway, long forgotten in the Becile manor. The Skull rubs his head with his hand as he kept walking he didn't even know what part of the manor he was in anymore or on what level. His mind in a complete fog as this new depression of losing the only thing he loved crept into his mind.

'tink…tink..tink"' He lifts his head to the sound of a familiar sound of someone working on something. A low set grumble rolls through his chest; he already had found two people that snuck in trying to find Becile teck thinking the manor was now vacant.

'tink..tink…tink.'

He quickens his pace but reducing his noise he was making. He leans close to an old wooden door that was cracked open. He pushes the door open and steps inside cautiously still now exactly sure where the sound was coming from.

The sound stops and seconds pace by as he scans the room. His photoreceptors catching something in the corner of the room and he steps towards a huddled shadow trying to be still as a mouse.

"Get up." The Skull was too tired to be forceful he knew his appearance did most of the work for him anyway.

The shadows head turns and a pair of receptors where looking right back at him, one blue the other half blue half green.

It surprised him a bit, not seeing many bots brave enough to come him but as he reached down to hurry the process and through the bot out he inhaled deeply as the bot….or human stud up from their shadowy corner.

"Brianna?" His hands froze as he stared at her. It couldn't be…he looked her all over the part of her face around the multicolored eye had darkened to almost a coal black as well as many other spots on the same side of her body as he could see various old weapons sticking from her left arm and leg.

"Brianna..what have you done?!" Skull reaches towards her.

"NO!" a growl rips from her vocals has a large blade coming from her wrist swings up them straight down at him.

'KIIIIIRIK!"

"Don't you dare touch me." She glares down at him her eyes flickering in the shadows with red warning lines.