When I awoke roughly five minutes later, the ground was littered with
broken or destroyed Mechs. There was still one factory 4 mech standing in
front of me. It had a huge gun about as long as he was tall, he started to
run backwards away from me. He stopped about two hundred feet away and
aimed his gun. My mech (which still was in control instead of me) flipped
open its right arm and pulled out a short metal stick and put into his
right hand, and then the stick grew to be a giant quarter staff. The other
mech fired, and my mech flipped up the quarter staff just in time to stop
the bullet. It had hit the quarter staff about two thirds of the way up.
Now it was my mechs turn to make a move. It ran at him at full speed and
then jumped up into the air spinning the staff, coming down on its head
splitting it in two. Then before the mech could fall over, my mech hit it
into the air, and then cut him in half with the staff. The factory 4 mech
fell to the ground in two pieces. My mech put the quarter staff back into
his arm and turned around. There were ten Thermosa mechs standing and two
sitting next to them. I turned off "hydro(lifeforce)./hack.Exe0011100101".
The ten mechs just stared at me, I walked over
to them and asked, "What?"
Crim answered me first, "You are amazing!" before the rests started
all talking at once.
"Really?" I asked.
"Yes!" he answered.
Ten minutes later everyone was sitting around a big table in one of
the bigger huts, eating
some weird cold soup and drinking big glasses of dirty water.
The man sitting next to me asked, "Where you from kid?"
"I was a test subject at factory 4," I told him.
"Oh really, so were a lot of us. see they have been developing mechs
for over forty
years. But I think your special. Crim says they sent the snake mech after
you, you really lucked out that Crim was in the area."
After about five or ten more minutes of this weird guy telling me how
special I was Crim
came over and told me, "Come with me. The town founders want to talk
with you."
I got up and followed him out of the hut and into one about three huts
down. It was much
smaller. There were four people sitting at a table. Crim sat in one of
the two open seats, I
sat in the other. One of the town founders spoke, "Hello, my name is Lune,
and these are Rufus, Tyler, and Cloud.
"Wow," I thought Cloud was maybe ten. He was tiny, smaller than me.
"We want to tell you something very important, so pay attention," said
Lune. "We want you to know that you are Marrow's rider."
"What?" I said.
"Marrow is your mech. Probably the most powerful mech ever. It was what
made Grenndle start the mech research. He found Marrow in this desert in a
lab that is now destroyed" said Tyler.
"It has a mind of its own but no one could control it, it killed or
crippled anyone who
tried to use it. But you can use it. So you are Marrow's rider."
"But I have one question," Rufus said. "How did you make it get so
strong, it went way
past its potential power. Not even Crim, it is that strong."
Crim was starting to look a little mad again.
"You have to help us get a big enough resistance to defeat Grenndle. He
still has too many mechs for us to beat even with you," said Lune. "Will
you help?"