Another bigger evil is afoot!
The voice directed me through the maze of the ruin, telling me where to turn and what doors to go through, until it told me to stop and go through one last door.
"This room ahead contains all I need to be able to register you in the system to an adequate degree in order to allow my system to fully aid you." the voice explained to me as I passed through the door. The room I entered into was the same one as Teisel and I first meet the voice only now some small poles were sticking out from the ground at a point near the crystal container.
"ummm, what do I have to do?" I asked, confused and scared by the sharp poles jutting through the ground.
"The requirement is simple, all you are required to do is place your hand on the refractor on the other side of the room." The voice told me. I started to cross the room, careful not to touch the sharp poles that stuck up so tall that they were just under my arm pits. Finally I made my way across.
"What about Teisel, can you help him?" I asked once I made my way across the room. The voice was slow to reply.
"Teisel and the other members of your designation are scheduled to be executed, but if they resist they will increase their chances of survival by a regularly increasing 5 percent until they reach a total 18% chance of survival. However concerning that they are going to receive reinforcement from outside forces that are only moments away from attacking this installation, I give them a 30% increase in survival chances and if you make yourself part of the system, I will be able to increase their chances by an additional 35%." The voice told me.
"So all I have to do is touch this refractor?" I asked.
"Affirmative."
"And it will register me as part of the 'system'?"
"affirmative."
"Will it hurt?"
"the theory of this operation does not provide adequate data to form a opinion." The voice said.
"ummm, can you tell me who-who is coming to help us?" I asked feeling embarrassed to be asking all this and not doing as the voice said.
"The ships approaching are registered as one Sulpher-Bottom and a series of law enforcement ships along with one ship known as the Flutter. The Flutter is drawing my attention, I suspect a hostile ambrient unit aboard it, who might even harm you." the voice told me.
[the Flutter? That is Roll's ship, she and her friends are coming to get us! Oh, thank-you Roll you might not know it but your saving our lives here, bringing your cute friend! What Tron get serious!]
"Alright I'm doing it!" I said aloud to no one in particular and I reached over to the refractor kept in the glass case leaning on the wall and touched it.
*****
When I touched the refractor I could feel the energy rush up my arm. I could feel it electrocuting me, I felt a tingling moving all up my arm and I tried to pull back but my arm, and my feet wouldn't move. The tingling feeling in my arm changed to a pulsing pain, again and again it hurt enough that I screamed. I continued to fight the machine trying to pull myself away; as I fought I felt both tiredness and a new strange energy in my body. I struggled more with the machine, trying to get back, to get away, but now my mind felt clouded and it felt as if something were trying to change in my mind as if I was trying to become someone different, someone else.
"Let me go!" I screamed, and in one last pull got myself away from the device.
I fell only a meter short of hitting my head on one of the now glowing poles. I lay on the ground where I landed, I felt strange, my head hurt and it felt as if an army of bugs were eating the insides of my arm. I fought to keep conscience but I doubted I would, but I was presently surprised that suddenly my head felt more firm. Sure it was still cloudy but I didn't feel like I was going to go unconscious, the door into the room opened revealing a single reaverbot coming into the room.
"Tron, please finish the process." The voice ordered as I slowly got up.
"No!" I replied loudly. I looked at the reaverbot; it was one of the Sharukurusu type reaverbots.
The Sharukurusu were a type of reaverbot that had a boy shaped like a cone or a top and had long legs and arms attached to a pair of joints on its sides. It's arms had long small blades sticking out and on the bottom of it's body it had a third blade sticking out from under it.
"Tron, your unit is incomplete I am unable to assist you if you are unwilling to do as required, to complete the process you only need a moment more with the device." The voice said.
"It, hurts. I don't trust this, something is wrong with this." I told the voice letting my fear show.
"Tron, you must complete the process. Please, the physical pain is only temporary. You can defeat it with your will. I have seen you overcome some greater pains and flaws already, this process will overcome these flaws and defects." The voice pleaded.
"My…my head! This thing is messing with my head, I can feel it!" I retorted, I wouldn't use that machine unless the voice took my hand and forced me to touch it.
"Then, you provide no other alternative, Tron, this unit must take action. For the betterment of the carbon race and yourself in particular I will use force."The voice said as the reaverbot now started to slowly march across the room.
Sharukurusu type reaverbots were the fear of many diggers; they were fast, could be found in numbers and were adaptable. I started to think of how I could dodge the reaverbot.
[Maybe I could use one of the poles in the ground like a spear and then run out of here. But where to run?]
I was thinking before a strange new and yet strikingly familiar voice came into my head. [Cease all resistance at once and comply with the demands of the guardian unit of this installation.] it said.
[What, now your in my head voice?!?] I questioningly thought.
[no Tron, you are errored in your thought that the voice could access your mind.] Came this new voice's reply as I watched the reaverbot looking at the pole hopefully.
[Then who are you?] I thought.
[I am in one way, you Tron Bonne. But I'm not like you; you are Tron Bonne the carbon pirate mistress. I am Carbon Mother Unit reiterated as Tron Bonne; my mission is the reprocessing of the carbon race into the master system. I shall not be denied by my lesser self, you shall comply, you and I shall join in mind, you shall understand and you shall complete your destined mission.] this 'other' Tron' told me.
The reaverbot was almost in position for my strike.
[Well, why you are here let me lay down the rules. One, I am in charge so shut up and watch. Two this is my head so your going to have to pay rent before I kidnap a professional shrink to get rid of you, and three if your going to try and fight me I will kill us both!] I told the voice with only seconds before the reaverbot was in my range.
[In light of the directive of self preservation I will comply with your demands until the unit trigger X orders otherwise or your demands counter the self preservation directive.] The other me's voice replied, just in time for me to bend the pole and use the reaverbots movement and some of my own strength to stab the reaverbot. Once I stabbed the reaverbot I ran for the door.
"Tron, the carbons I must reset them, they must be absorbed into the system! You are to be their mother unit, you are to bring your race into a new age through the destruction of incompatible units!" he voice yelled as I ran out of the room.
Once out of the room I started to run back the way the voice had directed me to this place before.
[I only hope Teisel and the others are safe! Ohhh, please let Roll's friends be here, please let them be on time!] I kept thinking as I ran.
[why do you wish for the safety of these other units? You are more important and they are simple servitor units compared to you.]
[You know you are really ticking me off! Shut up and let me run. Got it?] I continued to run, still hoping, still praying that everything would turn out alright.
*****
I finally made my way to the main room, inside was a scene of chaos, reaverbots randomly attacked everything that wasn't from the museum originally, pirobots and birdbots attack a vastly outnumbered group of servbots, and on the other side of the room gunfire pored through the door which it seemed pirobots were fighting to hold. I stood for a moment thinking.
[The pistol where did I leave it?] I was thinking.
[Your, unit left its weapon beside of a book inside its designated aria.] My unwanted other self told me.
I slowly made my way across the battlefield and reached the far door, which would take me to my room; I then ran to my room and rushed inside to get the pistol. I started rummaging through my stuff trying to find my pistol.
"where is it!" I silently raged.
"hay, I thought I heard something." A voice outside the room exclaimed.
[not now!...ohhh, why does this always happen to me!] I started searching faster, not taking care to be neat.
As a looked next to my bed for the book and the gun that would be next to it, I must have bumped the side table too hard. There was a laud crash as a lamp fell onto the ground and I could hear noises coming from just outside the door.
[oh, great, just the best way to die stuck in a corner.] I found the gun next to Roll's diary under my bed.
[I had already informed you of this weapon's position.] My newly acquired split personality told me.
"Shut up!" I grumbled as I grabbed the gun and placed myself behind my bed. The door quickly burst open and a pair of birdbots strode in with rocket launchers. I popped up and started shooting. The first one took a couple of rounds and dropped it's weapon before running behind cover, but the second one was quick to get out of my line of fire. I emptied the gun's clip and loaded a new one, ready to start fighting this little birdbrain. I stood up going to shoot at the birdbot but was surprised to find Teisel standing in the door way.
"Tron!?!" he cried in shock.
"Teisel?" I asked back. My older brother ran up and hugged me.
"oh, Tron I was so worried! But DON'T WORRY…. I've already have… a plan…. so we can come out on top!" Teisel told me.
"a plan? What are you saying Teisel?" I inquired my voice squeaking with interest.
"Simple Tron, you didn't really think I fully trusted that …LEON…did you?" Teisel told me, his disgust fully placed in Leon's name.
"umm, welll, I kind'a did think you trusted him and well I actually kind of really trusted him." I admitted.
"Well I didn't. Someone who has to …kidnap you… just to just to have you help them doesn't deserve any trust." Teisel lectured.
[ouch, Teisel, just slap me in the face why don't you…well I guess Roll never trusted me.] I stepped out into the hall and I found Bon standing over a number of unconscious birdbots and a couple of servbots nearby.
"so what is our plan Teisel?" I asked.
Teisel broke out in his hysterical laugh. "simple! We find the main refractor room, or what ever serves as a control room here and we shut this place down, with everything offline Leon will go down quickly!"
[hmmm, typical Teisel, always thinking of treasure. But this time it might just work]
*****
Teisel lead us as we fought our way through the strange ruin, getting lost over and over again. I watched as Teisel and Bon carefully checked around a corner, and then signaled that it was alright to continue on. I ran up next to Teisel as we walked down the hall.
"Teisel, where are the servbots?" I asked. Teisel smiled innocently at me and shrugged.
"Alright, do we have a plan for finding them after we shut this place down? Also, I was told that some help was going to show up have you seen anyone else here? Just what the heck happened when I was gone Teisel?" I asked, quite possibly sounding as annoying as possible to Teisel.
"Tron! Slow down will ya…everything is a little….hectic, right now….BUT I am sure that the servbots are alright. Hopefully they are doing as I told them and taking control of both the Gesellschaft and the watching colossus. You don't want to know what happened while you were gone Tron, let's just leave it at that,…I don't like what's , Going on here." It was apparent that Teisel was dodging the question about help. We all walked silently for a while, I started to comb my hair with my fingers, apparently it must have been messed up as I fought with the birdbots.
[something that shouldn't happen considering all the zenny Teisel wastes just to get me hair gel.]
one good thing during the walk was that the little voice in my head was gone during the whole time I was with Teisel.
"ALL Right lets get to it!" Teisel suddenly burst out as we walked into a very familiar corridor.
"What is it Teisel?" I asked, politely.
"this looks like the aria Bon and I found that map room." Teisel whispered.
"Map Room?" I gasped.
"hugh? Oh yea. Bon and I found a map room before we were separated from the servbots." Teisel told me.
"Teisel, you mentioned something about a watching colossus, does that mean that Leon has a giant robot ,like the one Loath had you dig up, here?" I asked, now remembering Leon's little statement about Colossi.
"no, Even Better! The Watching Colossus is Leon's ship! With something of that –size- under our control we'll be the Greatest pirates to ever exist!" Teisel excitedly shouted, though I was doubtful.
"Teisel, even if we do capture the watching colossus, what about our stuff? And what if we can't even figure out how to control it?" I flatly stated.
Teisel stroked his chin in thought. "well then…I assume we will just –have to TAKE IT'S MAIN REFRACTOR AND BLOW IT UP!" Teisel stated in a loud voice.
"right Teisel!" I cheered.
Teisel stopped at a corner for a new hallway and looked around, and then he quickly pulled his head back. "yep, that's the map room alright…BUT THERE ARE TONS OF REAVERBOTS AND BIRDBOTS GUARDING IT!" Teisel said in surprise.
I sighed and rolled my eyes at him. "Well if the room is important wouldn't someone be guarding it?" I asked sarcastically.
Teisel glanced quickly at me and looked back around the corner. "Well they weren't here before." He said. Teisel then turned and faced Bon, who was next to me.
"Bon, you work as a shield and change ahead, Tron and I will back you up and take them down." Teisel planned.
"right." I replied.
"Babu!" Bon cheered before rushing around the corner and starting our charge. I stayed a few steps behind Teisel as he threw 'Bonne' bombs at the many birdbots and reaverbots in the room and I used the pistol I had to pick off the ones that they missed, though that was only a few. As we charged birdbot after birdbot was blown away. Suddenly Teisel stopped and I nearly ran into him, but Bon continued running down the hallway smashing reaverbots and birdbots.
"Tron quick into the map room!" Teisel shouted and then pushed me through a door way. After Teisel rushed in himself, I could hear a loud explosion and Bon started screaming.
"babuuuuuuu!" he screamed as he flew past the open doorway.
"Bon!" I shouted in terror, wanting to rush to my little robotic brother. Teisel grabbed my arm, stopping me rushing to help Bon. "
Tron, Bon is ok. Right now we need to check the map….again." he said calmly.
"That blue boy has done worse to Bon than any of these –Wimps- could do." He added. I glanced around the map room only to find a single table with a computer display on it. I slowly approached the computer, carefully making sure I was ready to run if one of the enemies outside happened to get past Bon, who was now rushing down the hallway in a mad charge again.