I DO NOT OWN MURDER DRONES
Poster art was made by me.
Also fixed some mistakes in the chapter.
Chapter 1 : Luzi Doorman
"V, NO WE NEED YOU!" An Elevator was forcefully brought down as the cable snapped.
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"What's happening to me.." The sounds of glitching continued to worsen.
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"You know she had it coming, Doorman." A Girl fury filled by revenge gritted.
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"DOLL!" The fury of an angsty teen echoed.
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"I'm.. sorry Tessa.. Uzi IS my.. Universe, there's no Inbetween here!"
A choice was made.
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"Bloody hell! What the hell is that!?" Australian.
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"I drop by just to see you three dying, You sure you needed me at the Ship. Boss?" A leader makes sure her comrades are always safe, even if she's not the best.
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"WE HAVE TO GET RID OF HER! N!"
A Choice had to be made.
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"As... if I'd.. die that easily!" A friend thought to be dead, only dies when they lose trust in them.
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"Cyn... you're back." The return of a terror.
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"Did you miss me?" Words that bring chills.
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"Bite me.. We either move forward to together, or not at all.." A Determination Unpalatable, Body of steel and a Heart of Glass, together they walk, A thousand sins unforgotten and unforgiven, withstood pain to stay together, yet they remain unshakened. As they faced the end.
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A sword was plunged into the heart of the absolute fabric.
"FINISH IT!" A final blow landed, the very thing that decided the fate of a Universe
And the ending of a threat.
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The screen of a TV statically loading was in view, the sounds of static filled a vast room filled with chairs and desks before it played a video. .
The screen played a recollection of a long past event
that had been long over, scenes if worker drones being used for labor, to a scene showing humans completely fucking up, up to worker drones having a finally to Disassembly drones arriving on the planet, the video paused as a booming feminine voice took over.
"Skip! We already know the story and all that crap, so just skip!", A hand slapped over the screen causing it to temporarily buffer.
"Just as our history classes taught, humans messed up and went kamikaze on the planet completely Obliterating themselves like idiots off the planet, Worker drones took over, Disassembly Drones arrived and made everyone's lives hell. " The voice paused, before they spoke even louder, "But that wasn't just everything, some spooookkkyy~~ eldritch stuff happened behind the shadows, both Worker and Disassembly drones were lied to, but.. That's all in the passsttt..! Worker drones and Disassembly drones are at peace now, considering.. well, some of us are different from one another, sitting next to each other..." A metaphorical shrug came from the voice as they continued
The screen changed to a different scene showcasing the appearance of a grotesque bio-mechanical abomination riddled with sharp tentacles and claws, next to it was a disfigured worker drone, or what it used to be, with claws unfitting of a worker, visor covered In flesh.
"16 Years ago, A universal event called the 'Singularity' nearly destroyed everything caused by the terrifying Angel, it came down like a black hole of tendrils destroying parts of reality itself! Hell there's still a huge crater just four miles of our outpost. No one really knows where it came from."
The feminine voice stopped for dramatic effect, and continued. "But not before five people stopped that from happening, two of which we know of, the rest is err.. Lost to history I guess. "
The scene changed again, the silhouette of a familiar disassembly drone was shown, her swords on standby, multiple injuries covered her body, pale short hair and yellow eyes glaring at the monstrous shadowed abomination in front of her, A known figure in this outpost because of her current achievements Serial-Designation V
Next to her was the easily identifiable tall goofball, just like his white mane of hair ruffled, burn marks covered his body, a missing hat and a missing arm, yet he stood strong despite the damage he'd taken.
At the back, A pony-tailed disassembly drone crouched next to a human, just like the others, she was damaged, but less so than her fellow disassembly drones, and probably the most recognized at the present. Serial Designation J
The human next to her was wearing a light-easy to move astronaut suit with a sword strapped to her back, she was holding her stomach as blood dripped down from a bladed-injury.
And last but not least, the most infamous worker drone on Copper 9, A goth-like appearance and an attitude that screamed 'emo', violet hair flowing smoothly as she stood her ground against their adversary, out of all of them, she was the most injured, she stood the tallest despite being the smallest, her presence bringing forth a rebellious aura.
Their figures were somewhat shadowed, making it difficult for those who were unaware of who the unnamed three figures were, on the other hand, they were easily recognizable to those aware of who they were.
Identifiable to Five people in this classroom room at least.
Only V and J were recognized by most because of their fame.
"We thought things were over, a new era of peace for the new generation." she clasped a fist and brought it up for dramatic effect.
"However! Something completely changed that." the voice boomed once more across the class, "Five years ago, some thingy weird monster drone appeared four miles of Outpost 3, it suddenly came out of nowhere tearing apart Outpost 3, since our Outpost is the only one to have disassembly drones live here, they didn't last long."
"Ever since then, these things appeared one after another, they come in different forms.
From honest-to-robogod-lovecraftian-eldritches to messed up Distorted looking drones."
The screen changes to show a graph of multiple bio-mechanical creatures sections of their own, the first one was the drones with unusual flesh growing out of them.
"Finally, to the best part of this presentation, considering the fact this hasn't been taught to us yet." the voice shrugged, "First one on the list, the creepy dangerous ones that corrupts you up if it touches you for too long, something we know as an 'Fragmented'"
The graph enclosed to show multiple pictures of 'Fragmented' drones, most of them barely had intact limbs, while others had completely whole new appendages, mostly being sharp tentacles, bladed limbs.
"These." the voice pointed towards the screen "Are 'Fragmented' Drones, just as the name implies, these mooks used to be people until some weird horror stuff happened to them after they got too close to another Fragmented. " A few selective gasps came from the classroom, granted, this topic wouldn't be taught to them for another three years.
They were 15 year old students after all, a topic this dark is not usually taught until they're 18 year olds(This was the same 16 years ago, the topic being about Murder Drones/Disassembly Drones)
"It's akin to what humans would call a 'Infection', this infection can spread from extended exposure to an Fragmented, usually just by being touched alone is enough to cause the infection to start, it's not as fast as you'd think, but definitely persists the longer you were in contact with one." The screen started to change again, showing an animation of a Worker Drone being in contact with a Fragmented.
"When exposed to this, A drone usually grows a rusty complexion before literal flesh starts coming from inside them, tearing them apart." The worker within the animatic is left on the screen, before a few texts appeared saying 'INFECTED'
The metallic skin of the worker slowly turned rustful as flesh began to rip out their body, for a doodle animatic this was unusually graphic. "It usually takes more than a minute of direct contact for an infection to happen, of course, this gets worse."
The animatic changed to a scene where the Fragmented slashed a worker with their fleshy claws.
"If even a single injury, even just a scratch, a fragmented was able to inflict on you, the speed of the infection is increased, lowering your chances of surviving.", A few grew horrified by this, the rest were unsettled, even the few young disassembly drones across the class.
"Second one is, the 'Eldritches'," The screen switched focus again, this time, on the giant monstrous biomechanical abomination, "The very same thing our parents keep telling us that's always lurking outside and the cause of all these problems, these guys we're the first before the Fragmented, unlike the fragmented which are just normal drones, but corrupted, these things look like they came out of some Monster Island rip-off."
"Literally, they usually come in forms that resemble an animal or an insect." A picture of a spider-like creature made out of dead corpses of drones and flesh showed up in the screen, spooking the audience once more, "Yup, crazy right, now you'd be thinking, with all the disassembly drones in our Outpost, shouldn't these guys be a walk in the park? Answer to that is noooooo... " The feminine voice made sure to emphasize that part, "Since they've got some weird fleshy gooey things, killing these guys isn't just easy, they won't die until it's completely destroyed."
"Situation really hasn't changed much since our CEO, Miss J, quarantined everyone inside the outpost, saying it's too dangerous outside." The voice scoffed
"More like acting cowards.. We've got the means to fight.. why aren't we fighting back..?" She said that last part under her nonexistent breath
Within the audience, one student raised an arm and asked, "Don't we have like, a known figure inside our Outpost.. Serial Designation V... You know? That one awesome disassembly drone that prevented an Eldritch from getting past through our gates, what about her? can't she do anything about it?"
This brought up a few murmurs beside the student, until it spread throughout the class.
"Isn't she the best fighter out there?
" I heard she's like a hero"
"Nahh, My mom said she was a murderer back then before she changed."
The murmurs became slightly louder, prompting the presentor infront of the class to slap a hand on the table near her, she didn't like
what they were saying to V. 'she's my auntie you shitheads.'
That got the classroom to quiet down, the female drone running a hand through her finally revealed purplish hair.
Her violet eyes narrowing at the class, daring someone to speak up.
Seeing no one wanted to, she continued "Aside from V, no one else has made a move to fix the problem lurking outside. " The female drone grinned while walking the table next to her, and picked up a strange device that had a gun-like appearance.
"Which is why! I made this totally-working-awesome-plasma railgun-that'll-solve-our-problems! Can't be a problem if there's nothing left right?!" Before she could show it off, a red light covered her weapon and and was slowly levitated over to a female drone wearing a short red jacket with collar furs, and a ushanka on top of their long vibrant hair, calmly sitting down in her Teachers Desk.
"Wha-?!" The young drone yelped as she watched her beloved creation be taken away
The red light covering the weapon disappeared as Doll grabbed it, she gave the young drone an unimpressed look before placing the weapon on her desk.
Doll was bored, quite a lot.
If she knew being a teacher was goddamned boring, she wouldn't have accepted becoming one.
Scratch that, she absolutely knew how boring and troublesome it would be to advise over hormonal teenagers would be, she'd seen it from her previous teacher, Lizzy's Dad.
Nonetheless she had to do something to at least condone for her sins, all the past murder she'd done in order to initiate a revenge-plot against V, technically she did succeed in doing that 16 years ago, back at the elevators.
But she eventually came back moments before the final battle against the [ABSOLUTESOLVER] began, Doll hadn't forgiven the disassembly drone for murdering her parents, years of being in peace and finding a solution for the Oil-intake both for those who need it by that human, Tessa.. was it? She'd made a truce with Uzi's ragtag group a year after the battle, it took A LOT of convincing to not have them kill her, but that doesn't mean she still won't try to kill V if she ever gets the opportunity.
Seriously, screw that bitch.
Anyways, it looks like Uzi's oldest daughter is starting her presentation, she started first off with a recap of what happened years ago, eventually she got to the part where these flesh-metal abominations started roaming Copper 9.
Safe to say she was doing better than her mother's presentation years ago, since she's actually presenting a topic that wouldn't be taught for them for another 3 years, Doll gave a small nod to this.
'Not too bad, she's teaching her fellow classmates while at the same time being off tracks' she was quite literally on a different topic, the presentation was supposed to be about the uses of quantitative research, 'I'm already getting Deja vu, what's next? she's going to pull out a homemade weapon and explode inside the class?' Doll snickered at that last part, despite their differences Doll owed it to Uzi for ending the fight against the [ABSOLUTESOLVER], she too would have been possessed by it if Uzi hadn't defeated the reality-breaking sickness.
Because the [ABSOLUTESOLVER] was gone, all people who used to have it lost use of the power, this included the Disassembly Drones ability to regenerate, Uzi herself lost the power to use the solver.
Doll on the other hand was quite lucky, she'd somehow managed to make a power separate of Absolute Solver, she herself didn't know how she did it, might be because of her years of practice with the ability.
It wasn't as powerful though, only allowing for levitation of objects and a short burst of teleportation, there also wasn't any form of glyph or symbol when she used her powers, to her least of concerns, she wasn't in risk of suddenly getting possessed and reviving the Solver.
Speaking of which, Doll looked at the teenager currently presenting a presentation in front of class.
Her similarities to her mother was uncanny, complete by the fact she was also gothic and short, not to mention she had purple hair.
Just as rebellious too, however she was a complete goofball at times. Unfortunately that isn't just where the similarities end.
'She also has crippling family issues, real ironic. Uzi-'
Doll was brought out of her thoughts when she heard Uzi's oldest talk about a- Wait.. was that another railgun? 'Nope, not today. I've seen this with your mother and I'm not having it again'
She used her own branch of ability to take the weapon away from the 15 year old teenager, she grabbed it out away and put it on her desk.
"Luzi Doorman, might I ask WHY you have a potentially lethal weapon brought to my class? The presentation was about Quantitative Research, I appreciate the fact that you've at least taught your fellow classmates something beyond your years, but traumatizing them was unaccounted for."
Doll gave her an impressed look as she said in a bored tone.
"Uh..!" The teenager started to sweat digitally inside her visor, "And this presentation about Eldritches and Fragmenteds isn't included...? hehe..?"
"Meet me at my office after class, Doorman." Doll declared at the teenager, causing her to go into shock, before sitting back down in her chair.
At least she made sure it didn't explode this time around, no one was there to stop Uzi back then.
Luzi groaned as she closed the door to the Teachers faculty, her awesome-homemade-sickass-plasma-railgun was just confiscated away from her, it took her months to build that thing! MONTHS! Now she needed her guardian to get it back again, oh and on top of that, they called her guardian on her! At least she'll be able to get it back soon. But still!
The audacity.
Luzi sat down at one of the benches just outside the Teachers faculty and waited, it didn't take long for her beloved guardian and auntie to arrive, she frowned at this, she didn't want to trouble her for all the things she's done for her, and now they had to call her here all the way from her work.
Luzi stood up and lowered her head with annoyance at herself, she walked towards her guardian and Auntie.
"Hey.. Auntie", she raised her head and looked at her much taller auntie.
Standing there with her signature aviator jacket, with a new long waist-coat covering her bottoms
was V, she had a worried expression with her arms crossed.
Behind her was a smaller drone with yellow eyes, long pony-tailed hair and slightly shorter than Luzi, hugging her legs, Vivi. Ohhhh~ it's my adorable Lil' sis! She's cute as ever! even if we're only half Oil-blooded sisters.
Next to the small drone was someone of the same height, she also had the same yellow eyes, Aralee. her other younger sister, her own Oil-blooded sister, Vivi was her Auntie V's daughter.
Both the adorable drones gave their older sister a wave, Luzi returned a wave of her own.
'Gosh, they're both so cute I just wanna mush them in a hug!'
Melt your core over your sisters later, V is top priority right now.
"Luzi, what's this I hear about bringing a WEAPON inside your class, when did you even have the time to make it!?" V hissed. Luzi flinched back as she started sweating digital sweat.
"I-I was just uh.. Making a presentation about.. some things... " She brought two of her fingers together trying to look innocent as much as possible.
"AND what kind of presentation pray tell..?" V brought her face closer to the teenager, towering over her and being intimidating.
"The.. Eldritch kind.." She barely managed to say, her face sweating a lot.
V frowned at her, before pinching her metaphorical nose, she mouthed something but couldn't hear it, something about.. 'Just like her.'
"At least you didn't get hurt, Gosh damn it kid, we'll continue this back at home." She sighed as she opened the door to the faculty. "Stay here with your sisters, I'll go talk to your... Teacher." She murmured that last part with venom.
She entered the faculty room and closed the door.
Luzi felt something pull at her skirt, she looked back and saw her sisters giving her puppy eyes.
"Hi Big sissy!" Both drones said in union.
Luzi looked at them for a few seconds, before her face contorted into pure pleasure, Ahhh! They're so cute!
She hugged both of her sisters and lifted them both up, she had a good amount of strength due to being a Hybrid.
"Hey yourself, you little munchkins, what are you both up to?"
Aralee spoke up first, "Me and Vivi went to play with Braddy and Junny! Then we went to Auntie J's!"
"Vivi and I." Vivi corrected her sister as she hugged her older sisters face.
"Oops! I mean Vivi and I! She taught us about company stuff!" Said Aralee as she made animated gestures and continued ranting about their day.
Luzi paused at that, These two went to J's place again? 'I swear to robogod, if these two start talking in Business language I WILL lose it, why would V even leave them there-' oh right, because there's currently no one to leave them with.
Uncle Thad and Aunt Lizzy were busy with their own jobs, and V wasn't close to her Grandpa. Makes sense.
That would also explain why the both of them had Ponytails, J spoils these two way too much. For someone strict and cold, she immediately becomes gushy when she sees these two.
Can't be said the same for me, she dislikes me for some reason. Meh.
Luzi was pulled out of her thoughts when one of her sisters grabbed her attention. "Big sis, are you in trouble? Why does Momma go to the mean Teacher?" Vivi pointed towards the faculty."
"Ah.. hahaha, your big sis got in a little bit of trouble, nothing biggie, something you two shouldn't do, alright?" Luzi waved it off as she brought the two down.
Both sisters nodded in union, I swear these two are like twins if you discount the fact they both have different mothers.
Luzi looked back to the faculty door and wondered, what kind of hell is happening inside right now?
V and her teacher seemed to have some bad-blood(Oil) with one another if anything goes by, every time she saw these two interact they looked like they wanted to tear each other apart.
V and Doll glared at one another.
Not a single one breaking away from the deadlocked staring competition.
If looks could kill, these two would have been deader than the Absolute Solver.
V was in a good mood today, she just finished patrolling outside the parameters of their Gigantic-Expanded Outpost and detected not a single Eldritch or Fragmented, she returned home safely.
Spent time with the two adorable ankle-biting brats, even if she had to leave them with J, the quote-unquote CEO of this Outpost, The Egotistical Business woman had a mental breakdown when JcJenson had been dissolved by Tessa years ago, but she made her own a few months later, no one worked there in fear of a disassembly drone killing them, but after a few years people had started working there for some reason, probably because of Tessa making some sort of Oil-dispenser for all the drones.
Not too long after the probable remnants of the Absolute Solver(Those disgusting Eldritches), J's company soon became bigger as more and more disassembly drones came to work for her alongside Tessa, who was still kicking around in a different planet.
But enough about that, the teachers at Luzi's school gave her a call, something about her pulling out some gun inside class.. She's really like HER.
Bit by bit, her mood slowly went down when she got closer to the teachers' faculty. She didn't have problems with the teachers here, except for ONE.
Russian. Bitch.
V glared harder, while Doll's glower became colder.
The other teachers that were working on their cubicles watched in worry and concern,
mostly concern for themselves if and when knives and bullets start flying.
At least that one teacher who's been betting they'd eventually try to kill each other will get some free cash.
Finally, V and Doll finally broke it off, both of which letting out a heavy sigh.
V walked towards Doll with a frown
"Russian Bitch." V attacked verbally.
"Femmebot Slut." But Doll wasn't having any of it.
They seriously wanted to tear each other apart, but refrained because of the Truce they'd made years ago.
"What did she do this time?" V asked.
"Pulled out a possibly-high destructive weapon, if the Doormans were anything to go by, their intellect with building things are top-notch, I'm not surprised you even let her build that thing." Doll narrowed her eyes "You're her guardian after all, that's probably your influence."
V got pissy after that last bit, "I didn't let her build that thing, I didn't even see her work on anything.
If anything it's Uzi's damn Programming doing it's influence." Doll pondered at that.
"You're not wrong." Doll shrugged.
Doll got off her chair before picking up something under her desk, Luzi's Plasma Railgun. She used her levitative powers to throw it at V, who caught it with ease.
"Make sure she doesn't bring that to class again. I'm already having a terrible case of Deja vu.
Last thing I want to happen is have one of my students go outside to prove something and accidentally let in an Eldritch."
V rolled her eyes and slammed the door closed.
Doll watched as the door began to grow web-cracks due to the force it was closed at.
"Hmph. As they say in Russia, A Fiesty bitch is always a Fiesty bitch."
After V talked to the Russian Bitch, she took the girls back to their home to prepare for dinner, since two of the brats were hybrids and the other a pure one, they needed Oil intake, less than what she needed though. Thanks Tessa, for managing to lower my necessity to drink Oil.
As they sat on the table, V watched Luzi Interact with her sisters. She'd been very worried when they called her in. She didn't want Luzi accidentally hurting herself.
She smiled a little as she watched the oldest feed her younger sisters. One thing she's glad about the kids is that they took more after HIM, considering they're just as goofy and kind.
But she has no doubt some of her programming and Uzi's are in there somewhere, Luzi's rebellious side is already surfacing, HIS personality will atleast counteract her and Uzi's chaotic sides.
Speaking of her..
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"Luzi." V called out to Luzi, prompting her to look away from her sisters.
"Yeah V?"
V looked at her with a soft motherly look, "Promise me you won't sneak outside the Outpost."
Luzi's eyes hollowed for a split second before looking away, a small digital droplet of sweat appeared In her temple, "T-Thats outta nowhere V, I won't.. do something like that?"
Bingo, looks like Luzi also inherited HIS penchant for being a terrible liar.
"Luzi, PROMISE me, I know for a fact that you'll probably try to sneak out side to either pick up parts for your weapon or try it on some Eldritch." V held a hand over Luzi's.
"I-I just want.. to make you proud, I've been doing nothing but trouble for you when you're already taking care of Aralee and Me.." Luzi muttered while lowering her head.
Good Lord, she's just like her mother.
"You're already making me proud by taking care of your sisters, putting yourself in danger isn't the way."
Luzi was about to speak again before V cut her off, "And don't you bring that whole thing about me being a Hero, I'm not something stupid like that."
Aralee and Vivy did not disagree with that.
"WWWhaaatttt? No, Momma is a hero! You're way too cool! There's no way you're not one." Vivy complained to her, while Aralee nodded her head furiously.
'Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't have stopped that Eldritch from getting inside the Outpost.' Seriously, her fame for that rose up like bread inside a toaster. She didn't like being called that, no matter how many times she told the kids not to, they still kept on doing so.
'All these years of taking care of them made me too mellow..'
"That's besides the point kiddos, you two promise me you'll also never do dangerous things your Big sister does, got it?"
"Promise!" Both adorable drones said in union.
V nodded her head at that, she looked to Luzi, waiting for an answer.
"I.. promise I guess?" She hesitated.
"That's good enough." This was wholesome for V, something she'd gotten used to living with the kids.
Unfortunately she accidentally said something else.
"Last thing I want is having you go outside, you're like a lot your mother after all.." she sighed at that last part, talking to herself.
Luzi on the other hand was.. Sensitive about this. She froze when she heard V mutter those words, they weren't
exactly so clear and loud but Luzi was still able to hear them.
She immediately frowned and stood up, startling V.
"She's not my mom, she hasn't been my mom since five years ago." She walked back to her room, leaving V and The smaller drones with her.
"Well.. shit, I forgot she was sensitive about that."
She looked to the Lil'dronelings, who were fortunately too distracted with themselves enough to block out what Luzi said.
V stood up and brought the little ones to their room, bringing them to their beds, she'll just apologize to Luzi tomorrow.
She closed the door to Aralee and Vivy's room with a sign, "Aralee and Vivy"
V sighed for the last time as she leaned on the door before walking off, she walked towards a waist level cabinet with multiple picture frames.
She picked up a picture frame that was rather large.
A picture of their family.
Her, N, Uzi, J, Lizzy, Thad and Kahn. With a younger Luzi and two Untrained-Neural-Networks(Baby Drones) being held by N, Aralee and Vivy.
Thad and Lizzy held their own kids too..
Remembering the simpler peaceful times hurt her core..
It just wasn't the same anymore, with HIM gone.
and..
"Goddamn it Uzi.. where'd you disappear off to, after 5 years.. You better be goddamn alive so I can kick your ass for leaving Luzi and Aralee without a mother."
V looked outside their window.
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Uzi.
Where the hell are you?
Updated the Chapter because there were some errors that somehow stayed.
Next Chapter is probably today or tomorrow
And yes, this is my own take of a future AU where things were going smooth and peaceful till some bullshit happened.
How it actually started? It'll be explained in the next few chapters.
Thanks for Reading!