While in the middle of typing this, I realized that this "flashback" was longer than a regular chapter. For me, I type around 3 pages or so on the Word Document and thats an official length for my "chapters". So, I decided to split the flashback from the present and make it into two chapters. The last chapter'll probably be on later today or tomorrow.

Disclaimer: I only own the story

Finally, all those italic two-lines at the beginning of every chapter will make sense.

A small team of wizards, sages, and mages stood around an open grave.

"Alright," A tall, black-haired male wizard started as he pointed his staff at the open grave, "This is the entrance to Kiel Hyre's factory. Everyone stick together and be on your toes!"

"Yes sir!" The others replied in unison.

After the black-haired wizard walked in, a young, chestnut haired woman followed in closely. The mages soon followed after and then the sages.

Several flights of staircases later, the team entered the factory. At first, they noticed a few docile maid robots and balls of flesh-like material.

"Elena," The black haired wizard shouted, "Give the team a rundown on the monsters."

The chestnut haired woman nodded, "Right," She gave her wizard cloak a rustle and produced a small notebook, "Those maid robots are known as Alice and Aliza. They're overall pretty harmless and passive. Those balls of meat are constants. They self-destruct when they are near you so please be careful when you are around them. We are not sure what they exactly are but theories are that they are failed experiments that have come together in a clump."

"Thank you, Elena." The black haired wizard finished, "Everyone on guard. Ignore anything that might seem dangerous. Concentrate on finding anything that seems suspicious."

The team split into two with four members each. Elena led one group while the black haired wizard led the other.

"Alright! We meet back here in an hour. Press your distress buzzer if you are in trouble." With that, the two teams rushed in opposite directions.

Aside from the maids and constants, Elena's team found nothing out of the ordinary. That was…until they reached a mysterious elevator.

"What's this thing?" A young female mage exclaimed as she ran towards it. She was blocked by a nearly invisible green wall, "Huh?"

Elena approached it and touched in gently, "Interesting…" She took her staff and tapped against it, "It seems like a machine generated barrier." She looked to the elevator behind it, "There's definitely something suspicious about this. Why block off an elevator?"

"Shall we call-AH!" The sage was cut off by a pair of claws digging into his stomach. Whipping around, he tore apart the strange robot behind him.

This robot had long, messy black hair and wore a school girl uniform. Coming from her hands were long knife like fingers that were stained with the sage's blood.

"Get him a potion! Hurry!" Elena commanded.

Before the other mages could act, more of those clawed robots appeared as well as a few white haired robots with blades coming from its back.

"What are these?" A panicking mage shouted as he backed up to Elena, "Mr. Maxwell said nothing about these!"

Elena looked at them, "They are Alicel and Aliot. There aren't supposed to be many so he told us not to tell you about them."

With every second that passed, more appeared, like ants from an anthill.

The female mage shouted, "Elena!"

"Don't panic!" She summoned her magic, "Storm gust!" Summoning a giant snow storm, she froze the robots. Slowly, however, the robots were breaking free, "Damn…use the distress buzzer and run!" As she turned back to the robots, she noticed the barrier around the elevator was gone and the robots were coming out from there. Without a doubt, she knew that the secrets they were sent to look for lay beyond that elevator.

"Lady Elena, are you coming?" The wounded sage gasped.

She shook her head, "I'll hold them off. You guys get ahead. I'll follow along, I promise."

The sage nodded and followed the others.

"Heaven's drive!" Elena shouted as large earthy spikes came from the ground and punctured the robots. Swiftly, Elena leapt across the spikes and over to the elevator. Finishing off a few of the robots with a lightning bolt, she slid into the closing elevator.

The elevator rumbled a bit but began descending downward. The elevator jolted violently as the roof was torn open. The white-haired robot with blades on his back dropped in, tearing her staff away in the process.

Elena backed into a corner. Her staff was just taken from her and the elevator was too small a space to use magic. Quivering in fear, she watched as this robot approached her malevolently.

Waiting for her body to be pierced by the blades, she screamed. Contrary to what she had though, the robot merely looked at her with an emotionless, unmoving face.

"Aliza…?" He muttered in an emotionless tone, "Aliza…Aliza…You are…Aliza."

Elena growled, "No I'm not! Stop it! Get away from me you filthy monster!" Giving the monster a kick to the face as it got closer.

The robot reached down, grabbed her shoulders, and looked at her closely, "Aliza…"

Elena tore away from the robot and rushed to the closed elevator door. Grabbing her discarded staff, she tried prying the door open. She didn't know why this monster didn't attack her and she didn't want to wait to find out. She felt a jolt of adrenaline as she heard metal footsteps approaching her from behind. A smile came from her as she tore a small crack between the elevator doors. Her smile immediately faded when Aliot grabbed her staff and tore it away again.

"Aliza!" The robot shouted as he grabbed her around the shoulders roughly.

"My name isn't Aliza!" Elena screamed as she struggled from his hold, "Now get out of the way!"

The robot continued to hold onto her, "My name…Aliot."

After a minute of struggling, Elena began to realize that he wasn't trying to hurt her in anyway. He just held onto her, like a hug.

"You…don't want to hurt me, do you?"

Aliot looked at her. Just for a second, Elena swore she saw emotion on the robot's face, "You are…us." Aliot murmured.

Elena wasn't exactly sure what he meant. She was sure she wasn't a monster…

Aliot picked her up in his arms and turned to the elevator door. With the blades and claws on his back, he began tearing the elevator doors apart revealing a cage-like apparatus. With his claws, he began tearing that apart as well, making a tunnel for the two of them.

"Leave?" He asked her. Elena nodded dumbly, "Save you…Then, I will be lonely."

What were these feelings in Elena's heart? She knew this robot was merely a monster yet she felt drawn to this robot, "No." She muttered loudly, "You won't. I won't let you be." Her mind screamed at her. What was she saying? He was a monster. She was a human. This wasn't right. Yet, deep down, something felt right.

As if an illusion, Aliot turned his head to her and smiled. Overcome by confusion, Elena just lay in his arms as they walked through the makeshift tunnel. Seeing a crack of light above them, Aliot took his claws and tore apart the ceiling, revealing a hole large enough for the two to leave.

Aliot pushed her up and followed closely after. Elena looked at Aliot for a while, swearing that she saw a human there instead. She opened her mouth to thank him but was stopped by the brutal sound of metal shattering on contact.

"There!" The black haired wizard from before shouted as he rushed towards the two with the rest of the team, "Elena! Are you okay? We thought you would've been taken far away!"

Elena said nothing. She turned to the injured Aliot and watched as pieces of metal came from his body. The mages rushed as the robot and held it down. Elena shook her head violently, "What…no…let him go! Stop it!"

Ignoring her completely, the sages came and fired magic at Aliot.

"Al…i…za…" Aliot murmured as the magic continued to break away at his body.

By the time they were done, Aliot was nothing more than a broken up robot. Elena sat there on the ground, petrified in shock.

The black haired wizard offered a hand to her, "Come on, let's go." The black haired wizard shouted in pain as he backed up, his hand burnt into a stump, "Elena!"

Gasping uncontrollably, Elena looked up at the crew with an inhuman look. The sky darkened above them as a fiery glow came from the ground.

"Elena…" The wounded sage from before whispered, "What's wrong?"

Elena said nothing, only whispering two words, "Meteor…storm."

It was colossal. Giant flaming meteors fell from the sky, incinerating everything. The wizards were torn apart on contact and the ground was charred greatly.

As soon as the meteor storm faded away and the clouds parted, all that remained was pieces of the former team, pieces of Aliot, and a young crying wizard, haired dyed white from shock, sitting on the ground.

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