The tower from Old World was visible and all from Earth seen it as the people from the space who fought one of the vicious space battles in the space ever was. Only YoRHa knew in detail everything about the tower, but they could not abandon the fight to go on Earth to tell the people what was and what was doing. Hero's luck was BD-1 who had the body and memories of 9S being the one who stopped the Red Girls in the first place alongside A2. BD-1 told everybody on short how was stopped the Red Girls and where must go to have access to the tower Elyan, Leon, Cenred, Morgause, Ajax, Kastor, Lydia, and Stiles prepared to leave with a ship, but before to embark 9S, 2B, Pod 042, and Pod 153 joined them alongside some YoRHa androids who remained on Earth's surface. After half an hour, they arrived in the Forest Kingdom where they were met by Pascal. Pascal was in the middle of an important meeting where the king's council voted him to be their next king after the Forest King died many years ago. The vote was positive and Pascal was chosen to be the king. With this occasion, the council learned more things about royalty and agreed with the next kings to be selected like this. The heroes told to Pascal and the Forest Kingdom the last status of the fight and what was their mission in the Forest Kingdom. They offered to the squad some animals to ride to the Recovery Unit. When arrived there, the heroes observed it was protected by infected machines.
"I shall hack them?" asked 9S being ready, "I can't believe I am here again on such circumstances; this brings me bad memories,"
"Nines, you are not alone in this," said 2B taking 9S from the hand, "you are with friends and we will don't allow to the Red Girls put in application their plan and destroy everything that we build,"
"Affirmative," confirmed Pod 153 and looked how 9S hacked the machine, "the hack is successful, but something tells me the guards know something is wrong with the machine; they destroy it,"
"They are synched to the network; all of them seems to act as one," observed Pod 042 and proposed, "the hacking is pointless as long you want to subjugate them; we must be careful because they know are intruders in the perimeter,"
"The royal palace is corrupted because of the tower," said Stiles and smiled, "the good news is the Council and most of the kingdom moved in Pascal's village to know how good is Pascal with the village and how well can handle and fix the problems,"
"The one who remained behind, are under the control of the tower," informed Lydia and moved a bit to get a better look, "I think they see me; what do we do now?"
"Let me handle this," said Stiles and threw a rock in the opposite direction, "see? They go checking in the opposite direction and we have time to move to get unnoticed from here,"
"This is not going happening," warned Morgause and showed with the finger, "a swarm of machines and some tanks come to our location as we speak; they see us from above the castle and the tower,"
"Then prepare for the attack," said Leon and pulled his sword, "guys, we are surrounded by unhappy machines who come from four sides; what do we do?"
"If Morgause makes a storm; we can get rid of the troops carried by balloons and focus the attention on the heavy troops as the tanks and the Goliath's machines," said Cenred and looked at Morgause insistent, "I know, instead of looking at you insistently, must say thanks or to kiss you,"
"We don't have time for kisses," warned Kastor taking his swords from the belt, "somebody from the castle triggers the alarm and troops from the forest and castle are coming too; by the way, who invited that giant at our party?"
"Enough talk; more fight," advised Ajax and answered at the question, "I think we are the uninvited guests at this party,"
All looked up and saw a goliath how landed in the forest and approached their location. 2B and 9S summoned their ships which were stationed in the Resistance camp and when to fight with the goliath while the rest remained to deal with the machines. Before to leave, he hacked the three tanks making them fight against their allies. Morgause caused a storm, pulled the flying troops and threw them in the machines who came from the castle. After this, she destroyed the bridge which tied the castle from the rest of the kingdom. Lydia, Stiles, Elyan, Leon, and Cenred fought with the machines which came from the training grounds while Kastor and Ajax the tanks fought with the incoming droids who succeed to pass the bridge before his destruction. Morgause used a spell and created two clones of her to assist her friends in the battle while she helped 2B, 9S and other androids in their fight against the goliath. During the fight, 9S succeed to take goliath's arm and beat the goliath with it while 2B jumped from high, stabbing the goliath in the eyes, destroyed it. 9S and 2B were thrown away, but Pod 042 and Pod 153 caught them and guided to their friends who destroyed the machines while the other Pod did the same with their androids. When it arrived down, 9S jumped on some pipes and hacked the door in the tower to get inside. When everybody entered, the door closed and the Red Girls greeted 9S for his coming.
"We need to pass some levels and face machines until we reach the top," informed 9S while looked to others, "I can hear the machines coming towards us, but I feel something odd; I hear something like a vibration,"
"I can send this mini droid to scout the area," shared Pod 153 and sent it away, "what see the robot see, we see it too; it looks like somebody builds a portal or something and I wonder where it gets,"
"I guess the portal doesn't suppose to be here," guessed Lydia seeing the reaction of 9S, "the portal is made with the help of the technology and the end of it is located in the castle; I don't think it exists a way to deactivate it without cutting from the energy main source,"
"The good part is the destruction of the bridge because the machines can't catch us in the middle," informed Stiles and destroyed the panel from the elevator, "I am aware I get the attention of the machines, but at least they will not take us from behind,"
"Where the source of energy?" asked 2B and saw how the machines came, "let's fight with them and after that, we figure out how we can shut down the energy to close the portal,"
"2B, the source of the energy is at the top of the tower," answered Pod 042 while shot the enemies, "once we destroy the energy source and recover the key, the portal will stop working; we must do something to prevent the machines coming in,"
"Cover me," yelled Morgause while threw with lightning bolts, "time to see if the machines enjoy taking a bath in the river; I have everything that I need to put the action the plan,"
"Let's hope the cable is resistant to hold the part of the wall where is the portal," hoped Elyan and cut the heads of some machines, "is working; the machines fall in the water as we speak and they continue to fall as long they come,"
"If they try to rise the wall with the portal, the cables will be destroyed and the explosives will trigger," informed Cenred and jumped on a controlled machine, "in case the fools are coming, this will be their fate,"
"I never thought to fight with machines is so funny," said Ajax and bashed the machines in the wall with the shield, "no more machines are around and the rest of the machines remained stuck in the castle,"
"They don't give up easily," remarked Kastor and saw how to throw with strings, "they want to use the cables to come here and use the flying machines as transport; what do we do now?"
"I think is better to go to the next level and seal the door; we will find a way to leave from here," answered Leon and went to the elevator, "we are up; time to destroy the elevator and move on,"
The heroes fought with the infected machines in the darkness and climbed the floors with the help of the elevators. After some minutes, they arrived at the top of the Recovery Unit where was met by several machines that attacked the heroes hoping they would stop them from destroying the heart of the Recovery Unit to obtain the key. In the middle of the fight, the Red Girls showed up and stopped the fight to settle some something with their enemies, the androids.
"Ah, finally you are in the top of the Recovery Unit; we wait for your coming," said the Red Girls and went facing to face with their enemies, "it will take more effort than you imagine to beat us because we are not the same Red Girls you have met and we are happy to see you put so much effort in remaking YoRHa,"
"This is not your business and we are not your toys anymore, so back of; we will don't let to you the life," warned 9S and informed, "you can profit from my emotional state, but I am not alone, I have friends by my side and we are ready to sacrifice our lives for them as they are willing to die for us,"
"We observe this; this feeling upset us, but sooner or later the inevitable will happen," shared the Red Girls and showed the Universe, "the tower will corrupt all the machines around the world making them kill their masters as it happens with the Jedi who die by the hands of their clones,"
"Not if we will stop you," informed 2B and step ahead, "we, the androids, live in an eternal lie knowing the humans we are designed to protect die a very long time ago; we never have a reason to fight, just a lie and we will never let you destroy life when we finally discover the lied told is true; humans exist,"
"Adam and Eve wrong with one tiny detail in their findings of humanity," said Red Girls and explained, "their search is correct, but the detail their miss is the scale; they fail to realize the universe and Earth are the same,"
"Do you realize we face enemies more powerful and stronger than you?" asked Leon laughing, "you are nothing compared to their power and you will never be; those do revenge with own hands; you have lackeys,"
"Poor knight; what can you do understand?" asked the Red Girls rhetorically and explained, "with the passing of the time, the things evolved and in our days who has the information and the knowledge to applicate it is somebody; the war in our times is just a bomb and you don't need of military for example,"
"At least they fight their wars and not stay behind like cowards," said Cenred and smiled asking, "do you know what is the difference between a chief and a leader?"
"The leader leads the army staying in the first line and the chief stays behind giving just orders," answered Ajax and resumed, "you are just the chief, not a real leader and this is the main reason why the machines are protecting humans and fight for their cause, besides mutual respect,"
"You have much to learn," informed Elyan and looked at the Pods, "I am happy to live in modern times and know our protectors, but none the less the Pods deserve credit for rebuilding YoRHa from the ground,"
"We never succeed to do that if the androids 2B and 9S never teach us," said Pod 153 and resumed, "we can't assume whole credit for this,"
"Affirmative," confirmed Pod 042 and informed, "we learn somethings don't have an answer always and with the help of the conscience we have our decisions; I don't know how we can come with something unseen, but the hope dies last,"
"Do you realize is almost impossible to bypass us and make us destroy for good?" asked the Red Girls and confessed, "we know everything about everyone and nothing can surprise us,"
"This is so wrong," said Stiles and explained, "you are not Gaunter O'Dimm who knows everything about us; you know just the things we post over the network,"
"We know more than that; my dear," informed the Red Girls and shared, "as long all the electrical and technologized objects communicate, we will know too,"
"In our experience, we learn something important," shared Lydia and confessed, "never say never because you don't know from where the bunny will rise,"
"Good to know this," said Kastor and looked at the sky, "we are not alone in this fight and as long we stay together, nothing can beat us,"
"Why you must always learn on the hard way?" asked the Red Girls and said, "we've talked enough and kill them all; maybe you win a fight, but not the war,"
"The same thing we can say about you," informed Morgause and crush the machines with magic, "I don't know about you, but I guess you have somebody in mind who can bypass them,"
The fight ended with the beating of the machines. 9S ordered his Pod to shot with maximum power in the core and the laser beam from his Pod destroyed the core making a huge hole in the Recovery Unit. When wanted to leave from where they came, Kastor received a notification multiple machines are coming up. Morgause used her magic and create a bridge to the hole alongside some stairs, while others set the explosives at the top of the Recovery Unit. When the machines arrived up, the Pods warned 9S and 2B and they detonated the explosives destroying the Recovery Unit. The Pods went down where everybody waited for them and observed the steam released by the Recovering Unit started to fade. Morgause decided to make a portal and went to investigate the castle being accompanied by others. The Machines stayed steady and stopped being aggressive. Stiles approached one machine and looked at the filter. Lydia had at her a hand vacuum and gave to Stiles who used it to clean the filter. The machine came into sense and didn't remember anything. The heroes realized the steam was responsible for the behaving of the machines. They sealed the entrances, filtered the air and helped the machines to come in their senses. When they arrived in the throne room, Elyan spot an opening on the floor and saw some movement. He warned Leon and Cenred about it and they pulled the rug, opened the trap while Kastor with Ajax pulled their weapons as the others did. Down was Masamune and he came up looking stupefied around.
"Do you know what happens here?" asked Morgause and shared, "I think you know who are we,"
"Of course I know who are you," informed Masamune and apologized, "you come here with your friends when stopping Adam and Eve alongside that rogue machines; I don't leave from my workshop because I have much work to do being the best crafter in the whole land."
"Can you say what happens here?" asked 2B and shared, "we know that and more important is to know what is going on,"
"You get new clients those days very hard and I bored to do the same weapons ever and ever again; I do them with the eyes closed," informed Masamune and smiled, "fine, the big Tower rise from the ground and this thing near the castle appear too; when it appears, release steam which mads all the machines in his area,"
"We kill countless machines," murmured Leon and said, "the Red Girls must be stopped until more people and machines are destroyed,"
"Still, we don't know what is capable the Tower to do," confessed Pod 042 and shared, "at first we believe is a canon designed to destroy the moon base where are the last traces of humanity, but the Tower turned to be an ark which leads to new worlds,"
"How an ark can infect all the machines putting them to fight and kill against their will?" asked Pod 153 and shared, "I understand are machines over the universe who kill their masters willingly, but I don't understand how will force the rest using the rest,"
"The Recovery Unit release the steam which mad the machines, but the steam is found locally," said Cenred thinking loudly, "so, something else is the plan of the Red Girls,"
"None of seeming to have an idea what is going on," observed Ajax and looked around, "the only thing we can agree is none of us know what they plan, but is bad,"
"I am sorry, but I can't help you; I say everything that I know," said Masamune and took a look at heroes weapons, "I can make some upgrades to your weapons if you want; back to the subject, the revolution of the machines happened before on Earth and Universe?"
"Mentor, a machine in the Old republic do that, but we've destroyed it," answered Kastor and remarked, "again, most of the droids remain Barriss side; something else we are searching for and to beat your enemy, you must know your enemy,"
"Do you remember why YoRHa of Commander loses the war?" asked Lydia rhetorically and said, "the androids have in their brain OS chip which makes them susceptible to the virus which spread over the network,"
"The same thing happened with the Jedi the clones execute order 66; they have something in the brain which makes them act like that," informed Elyan and resumed, "the only difference the clones do that because of the inhibitor chip and not a virus force them to kill the Jedi,"
"I guess you discover the answer," said Masamune and explained, "a brain is a brain without depending from whom belong because of the existing similarity between them and have the same components; the tower might be used as a channel or something to execute the dreadful order,"
"Is used as an antenna to send or receive signals," said Elyan and asked, "we can destroy the tower?"
"Only from inside," answered Stiles and resumed, "this is not enough because we need bypassing the Red Girls to save the rest of the world from the machines,"
The heroes hoped they found the answer and Morgause with the help of magic warned everybody about what they discovered. They remained in the Forest Kingdom because corrupted machines kept coming and they threatened the safety of the Forest Kingdom and Pascal's village.
