Claude and the rest of the gang finally arrived in what was once the machine room covered in rubble. Pieces of the ceiling really changed the look of this place. Once a spacious lab that the machine for the windmill children was used for the windmill children. It was also the place where the normal kids were experimented on and had their bodies reconstructed into engineer like people made for the official engineer (Miss Weaver included) to use for their selfish desires for immortality. Even though most of the children were failed experiments as Claude saw before, otherwise there wouldn't be children in the windmill.

"Wow! What a mess!" Summer said.

"This was probably caused by the destruction outside." Claude said. "Anyways, we're going to dig through this rubble and look for Lucy's "Personality Container" as you said Summer. It's very important we find it. So do your best and look in every corner and under every piece of rubble as possible. Obviously don't want to leave a spot unchecked."

Carmen, Simon, even Summer agreed with a nod. Even though some of them had weapons, mostly shovels to use if they encounter windmill children, shovels can obviously be made for digging through some piles of rubble and other hazardous material.

Summer used her invention bunny which had a built shovel that could compress and fit in with the other gadgets yet expand into a tool as large as a regular shovel and dig rubble that's in the way for her. (of course she'd be lazy in effort, she's a ditz!)

Simon lifted some parts of the ceiling using what effort he could put in.

Carmen used her shovel for the piles of ceiling debris.

Some of them encountered enormous chunks of rubble, that they needed more than one lend of a hand to lift it out of the way.

Claude did participate in the search, of course after putting Lucy down. He put her in a safe spot where he could see how she's doing while handling heavy loads of pieces he had to help pick up.

*15 minutes later*

"I'm tired already!" Summer whined.

"How could you be tired if that bunny of yours has done all the work?" Simon asked in question.

"Err.. I mean! Man this container is hard to find… eh heh heh! Better keep looking."

"Okay I'm just saying." Simon said. Summer was still being the ditz she is as usual like when Hollow Fields was normal. Before any of this happened.

"Hey guys!" Carmen called. "I think I found it!"

Claude immediately ran to Carmen. "You did?"

Carmen lifted out the container. The contraption Claude has been looking for! Carmen gave it to Claude who made sure it wasn't damaged. A little stained from the impact but no severe damage. It was a good idea to get help digging through this rubble otherwise it would've took hours maybe even an entire day. And now with the help of some Claude has found it.

Lucy came over curious what the commotion was about.

"Lucy!" Claude said smiling. "We found your memories! We can get you back to normal! Soon you'll be able to remember everything again!"

Even though Lucy didn't know what was going on, seeing Claude smiling made her happy as well. She gave off a smile in response.

'She's happy. That's good.' Claude thought relieved.

"We better get going quick Claude." Simon suggested. "I can sense the other windmill children near by."

"Well then let's get going then. Despite us being armed, I'd rather avoid a fight with them. Summer, Carmen let's go!"

"Alrighty!" Summer said going over to Claude with Carmen following. Claude placed the container in his pocket. God forbid if he dropped it out of his grasp, it was the only safe place to put it (unless had a hole in it).

The gang with Lucy following ran back the way they entered. They weren't going to stop for anything unless one of them tripped or have trouble catching up with the rest.

Just when they were almost near where they left the golem, out of the darkness Meg, the leading windmill kid, jumps out and block their path.

"Meg!" Claude yelled.

"Hello little boy!" Meg greeted cruelly with a smirk. "My my! You brought some new friends! I'm delighted!"

"And I'm creeped out!" Summer said seeing a windmill kid other than Simon who looked a lot worse especially using a transportational incubator on wheels.

The next thing they knew, they realized before their eyes they were surrounded by the windmill kids. The gang got into position with weapons ready surrounding Lucy in a protective barrier knowing her vulnerability. Simon took out his shovel and crook. Carmen also got out her shovel as well as Claude did. Summer has her bunny ready to punch out any windmill kids that got too close.

"Come on! We only want to play. Right children?" Meg said. In response, the children got out whatever they had from saws to tools to whatever else. "Okay! I'll play your game little boy!"

"I don't want to hurt you Meg. I need you to get out of our way. We don't have time for this!" Claude said. "You don't have to do this! Even if you don't remember me, you are still my sister. You can live life again, get out of this windmill and if these kids want to, they can get out too!"

"Get out of the windmill? I don't need to and neither do the others here! How dare you say that! We children will never leave, but then again it's collapsing. But no one leaves!"

The children were growling with anger towards Claude and the rest. They seem to be creeping closer just ready to pounce the gang. Apparently one got too close though.

"GET AWAYYYYYYY!" Summer yelled as her bunny went on a punching spree as she screamed in panic and fury as her bunny knocked out a few children. Summer stopped and panted.

Some of the children backed away while the rest only got more provoked and got angrier.

"Don't do that again Summer! You just provoked them!" Claude yelled.

"Children ATTACK!" Meg ordered. Some of them began sprinting towards the gang. Using their weapons, the gang were able to knock out some and hold off others. Some of the windmill children didn't have or need weapons and used what they were experimented with as their advantage. Meg obviously had her visible specialty which was also a weakness. (the incubator) Some of the children also had a specialty. Engineers that made them either made them to have mechanical limbs, to float using steam, or blow out extra steam for speed.

Claude used his shovel to hold off some of the windmill children and had his own share of knocking others out cold.

Simon used mostly his shovel to keep the children away. He spotted one of the crazy unstable windmill kids sprinting towards him with alarming speed. Simon used his chain to capture him and finished him off the way the others were.

"That's violent, you could choke somebody with that." Claude said busy with his end.

"At least I'm not killing anyone, that's all I could say. I think despite my lack of memories, I'd be to young for that!" Simon said after taking out a kid with mechanical limbs.

Summer used her bunny to her advantage. Punching out as much kids as possible. She also had to use other weapons she included but she used the punching most of the time.

Carmen does the same thing Claude is doing with the shovel her only weapon.

The gang throughout the fight sometimes had to spread out leaving Lucy with either one or two of them protecting her while the others ward off the almost endless amount of kids trying to either capture or kill the gang with whatever they had.

Claude was making sure the personality container was still in his pocket and it was, but he was about to face the biggest upsets as a windmill kid charges at him, takes him down to the point where Claude was being held down trying to cut him. The container fell out of his pocket while trying to get the kid off him.

Claude tried to grab for it but a windmill kid picked it up to show it to Meg.

"What's this?" Meg wondered. "Was this what you were after little boy?"

"Give that back Meg! I mean it!" Claude yelled as he finally struggled free of the kid and used his shovel on him. The next thing he knew, all the fighting stopped but the kids were restraining Carmen and Summer. Simon tried to get away but failed as the kids restrained him, took his shovel away while some kid threw his crook to a spot where it lay hooked in position facing the ground.

To Claude's horror, Lucy was captured by one of the windmill kids and brought to Meg.

"I ask of you boy, does this little contraption have something to do with our new member over here?" Meg said comparing Lucy with the personality container. "It must be otherwise you wouldn't have come back here!"

"Meg, unhand Lucy and give that container back NOW! I'm not playing your game anymore!"

"Aww! Come on, can't we have some fun? Alright then let's play a deal. I'll let you guys pass for there might be plenty of others that haven't joined our group yet. You won't go empty handed but you won't leave full either. You must choose one."

"WHAT? Meg I-!"

"Not finished yet boy. You can take this contraption, and leave us with the girl or take the girl and leave us with the contraption. You have to choose one, after that your outta here!"

Claude thought about this. This was not what he intended. If he took the container, he'd leave Lucy for them to make apart of their creepy community or worse, to be killed by them. Then the container would be useless. It only has most of Lucy's memories but not all thus transferring the data to another body is impossible. He could take Lucy and leave the contraption to them to be destroyed. This means possibly no way to get Lucy's memories back. The only other solution that would help is have Lucy trying spend years of not only reeducation but having to be introduced in her condition step by step to those around her again .

…..

"…."

"Well?"

"…I…. I'll… I'll take Lucy…." Claude said in failure and sadly. He made it so far to get Lucy's memories but now his accomplishments worth of getting them were worth the effort of only being ruined thanks to Meg and the other windmill children.

The kids restraining Lucy released her and pushed her towards Claude harshly. Claude caught her. Lucy already had a tears forming in her eyes.

Claude took her hand and then he faced Meg. "Alright, release Summer, Carmen, and even Simon. You might of said that "I" was out of here but don't give me that "I didn't say all of you though" crap. When you mean me, you mean ALL"

"Yes." Meg said smirking. "Yes I did. But did I really mean that you walk away from us?"

"What do you mean? Of course, we had a deal you know!"

"Yes I do… But the rules here won't change. You still can't leave us."

"Meg what do you think your do-" Claude cut short of his sentence when a windmill kid from behind hits him in the back of the head with a giant wrench but because he used so much strength for such a large weapon, Claude rolled against the wall.

Lucy went ran over. She was trying to shake Claude awake. She then stopped to see what Meg was doing and before her eyes…. The kids holding the container by Meg's orders crushed it into pieces. Lucy was scared now. Didn't Claude work hard to retrieve it for some importance? Lucy tried waking Claude again hoping she get him to notice but he didn't awake. He was alive but due to Lucy's lack of memories and skills, he looked dead to her. He was dead to her by the looks of it. She began to cry a bit.

"Oh don't cry, he'll wake up!" Meg said but Lucy wasn't listening.

She was experiencing the feelings of sadness and other forms of that such as Grief and Loss. She didn't like it, natural for her. How could they do this to her protector? How could they destroy the container that Claude was searching for? How could they? The next thing to be noticed was that her heart began to beat madly. Another feeling was bubbling up inside her slowly beginning to dominate over her sadness. That feeling burned like fire. Had she experienced it before? She had be she couldn't remember and when she was normal, she wasn't the type of hot head. Anger. Anger was taking over her. It was followed by a desire of revenge and some form of insanity.

Lucy stood up, went for the nearest weapon which was the crook Simon was swiped of and face the windmill children face hidden by a shadow since it was facing down.

"So have you decided to join us?" Meg asked happily. But then she noticed something was not right, Lucy looked more suspicious. Why does she have a crook in her hands? She frowned.

"What's going on here?" Summer wondered.

Simon looked at Lucy. He then looked at Claude then back. "Oh no, this isn't good…." He said worried.

Lucy finally looked up but with an unfamiliar expression. Her eyes were glowing even more red. Her eyebrows were scrunched. You could tell she was angry. What she was thinking was no other thought than the one where the kids, Meg included, deserve punishment.

"She's become unstable." Simon figured. "Claude needs to regain consciousness soon!"

To be continued…..