{Hey, Cha- I mean Zaygh here, with and important message telling you to read this dank new chapter. That is all}
Chapter 4: Historical Significance?
[Location: Heading Home|Time: 22:00] Zaygh, after completing their mission, waddles back home, ready for a nice sleep. Arriving at the house, they enter to see Xanite standing in the kitchen.
"I have it!" Exclaimed Zaygh, holding the laser pointer for Xanite to see. "Behold, the glory of thy laser, thyn whits must be about thee for this is absolute-"
"I expected it to be bigger." Zaygh was cut off by Xanite, rudely I might add.
"W-What!? Do you have any idea what I've gone through to get this? Absolute HELL."
"You realise you can buy one of those at the store for like... seventy-five cents?"
"I don't have money though..."
"Suppose not, but what do you planning on doing with that? Unless you plan to very slowly blind everyone in your path, you won't get very far."
"I'll just make it better; upgrade it, I don't know."
"And how will you do that, strap a battery to it?"
Zaygh stopped and considered to idea of amplifying the laser with a battery. They ran to their room and closed the door, leaving Xanite to stand in the kitchen, doing whatever it was he was doing. Zaygh dug through the various drawers in the room, trying to find a battery. The more the merrier, but they didn't seem to be able to find any. They walked out into the kitchen where Xanite was still standing aimlessly.
"Xanite, we need more batteries. And by 'more' I mean LITERALLY ANY AT ALL." They stated.
"Add it to the list." He replied, pointing to the piece of paper on the fridge. Zaygh ran to the fridge and pulled a red crayon from their pockets. They wrote "Batteries" on the list and put the crayon back in their pocket. They stepped back and stared at the paper, waiting for something to happen.
"Xanite your list is broken." They said turning to face him.
"No. It's not magic, I'll get batteries when I get paid."
"You know I hate waiting."
"You've waited many-a-millennia, you can wait a couple of days."
[Location: Supermarket|Time: 11:00] In need of batteries, Zaygh convinces Xanite to slice into the emergency reserves of money and purchase batteries.
"I don't understand what could be so important about your laser device that we had to break into our emergency reserves to get it up and running." Xanite wondered aloud.
"We need a weapon for self-defense. I think I can make this laser deadly - or at least slightly painful - with some batteries." Zaygh replied.
"Self-defense? What are you expecting to fight?"
"We need to keep this world safe. Dimension 01 is essential. In a universe of infinite possibilities, there are infinite threats to this planet. We'll need to be ready."
Zaygh and Xanite looked over to see a store attendant staring at them, probably confused about all this talk of dimensions and threats to the Earth.
"Can I help you, Sir and Madam?" Said the attendant. Normally, this wouldn't be unexpected, but the way they said it was... Robotic; like they were focussed on something else, but giving a token greeting.
"I... Um, we're looking for some batteries, ma'am, do you know where we could find any?" Asked Zaygh.
"...Batteries... May be found in... Aisle seven..." the clerk responded.
"Thank you, we'll be on our way then." Xanite said, trying to get Zaygh and himself away from the clerk. They made haste to aisle seven, picked up some batteries and quickly brought them to the counter so they may leave. They left the store and began to walk home, taking as many shortcuts as possible. It wasn't until they could see their apartment, that they two were really in danger. At the end of an alleyway they used as a shortcut, stood the shop clerk.
"Oh, hi there... Did we forget something?" Xanite asked, hoping this was the case.
"No. You left with something though." The clerk responded.
"The batteries...?"
"The tree frog."
With that the deities realised that the person on the other end of the alley was not armed with good intentions. Xanite ushered Zaygh behind him and summoned his weapon, claws. The clerk at the end of the alley flickered, changing into their true form, revealing to be some sort of humanoid robot with it's right hand a small dagger. It lunged towards Xanite bravely, whilst slashing at him uncontrollably, Xanite blocked every hit, with immense difficulty, but prepares a counterstrike, slashing the chest of the Clerk, damaging some important circuits. Stunning Xanite with the back of the dagger, the robot once again makes a final lunge. Zaygh, pushes Xanite out of the way, revealing their weapon, a magical orb, dubbed "The Nexus". Zaygh shoots a clear azure beam through the robots head, clearing it of any sentience. They recalled their weapons and ran home.
[Location: Home|Time: 12:00]
"So they're here..." Zaygh said.
"Well let's not play the pronoun game, who are they?" Xanite asked. The robotic lifeform was new to him, but Zaygh had fought them many millennia ago. Autonoms had, at one point fought to kill Zaygh, until they were all either wiped out or retreated to dimension 3.6 so that they may survive. Zaygh, being the merciful creature they were, allowed them to survive, so long as they never travelled outside of dimension 3, and never caused harm to any of that dimensions inhabitants. Rumors had begun to spread that the Autonoms had been sighted in dimension 2.9, but that was still incredibly far from Earth, and they were just rumors after all. Apparently there was more truth than they thought. Zaygh explained the situation the Xanite, assuming that this robot was an autonom - likely, considering that it knew the small child was actually a tree frog - then they could be in terrible danger.