A/N: Hey guys! You know how chapter 1 was marked as a oneshot? I lied! Second fic ever, so like, don't tear me to shreds if the damned thing isn't set up properly or formatted correctly, as it was also written at midnight because I have no sleep schedule! This may be a sequel of Scarlet Drops, and may have more follow ups, but they'll all be in this AU. I might make them all under the umbrella of Scarlet Drops, so I dunno, we'll see I guess also, I'm still continuing the Human!V1 tree, screw you MrMan on Discord, BITE ME! additionally, I can only see V1 (the 4'1 rat) being a conniving little goober on the likes of TommyInnit and as such should be read in his voice (this is not mandatory, lol) ((BTW this takes place in USA because I am not willing to go through all of the struggle to research places in Finland))
It was a cold day when V1 had gone outside for a walk. Both terms were to Hakita's disappointment, as V1 could have gotten sick, after all, V1 had only been around for a week or so - hell, Hakita had needed to step in for a nosebleed - and also because V1 might accidentally reveal himself, but to be honest it was quite relaxing going around with V1 in the cold Autumn air.
Before Hakita had gone outside he'd made sure that V1, the inept child, had put on at least a layer or two despite the latter's disappointment, stating that it wanted to "BE FREE LEMME FREE I'M NOT GONNA FREEZE". it'd gone outside, promptly came back in and kindly asked for a sweater. Naturally, Hakita had chuckled and acquiesced, and had given it a leftover sweater from Christmas' stock.
When they'd both gotten outside, V1 had done the usual, commenting on how humans were "inefficient as using drill mod Railcannon" and "Not fast enough, if I still had my wings I'd be GONE you wouldn't be able to keep up at all", but that was one of the first things Hakita had banned while V1 still had a Combat hull and one of the first things he'd taken off of the V1.1 design, not just because of the guns (he'd moved those elsewhere, and into the arms when he redesigned V1) and also because a Slam Storage would Probably be picked up on US satellites and other scanners, and he'd tried to keep the whole V1 ordeal secret.
Not that the guy had tried to keep it secret, one of the first things it'd done was attempt to slam-store out of the room when Hakita got it, after all. That and apparently kill him, but he'd gotten better. Was kind of a trend, even.
Along the walkway, V1 was fascinated by the leaves, and asked Hakita why they were brown and orange and red and Hakita had simply responded "because that's how trees work". He had a degree in AI theory and engineering, not Biology, but he figured it was probably because the leaves had expended all of the chlorophyll, or something. Again, not a Biologist.
Getting back on track, Hakita was talking to V1 while they were walking past Central Park when the worst possible thing happened. V1 saw a small animal, and even worse, it was within grabber range.
"YOOOO is that a squirrel?! C'mere I wanna eat your blood and like eat you and stuff-" V1 said before Hakita partly tuned it out. - V1 might say something bad, after all - voice full of all the joy possible due to the small creature, Despite Hakita's attempts at ridding V1 of it's Vampiric tendencies. Who'dve thought that a Vampiric robot trapped in hell for centuries for blood entering the human world would keep it's past alliances to vampirism? Certainly not him, and he was now regretting adding fangs to V1's current hull "for the funny". Little shit had bitten him before.
When the Squirrel had come over - to V1's joy and Hakita's anxiety - V1 had promptly nabbed it out of the sky, and asked Hakita if it could keep "the little guy like come on he's at least 100 calories it wouldn't be that big of a meal! I can cook him, even!" "Vee I swear to god if you don't let the squirrel down I will not be happy." V1 promptly pouted and let the small squirrel down (to it's relief) but not before nearly choking the small thing out. God dammit.
Continuing to jump around like it did where it came from, V1 kept being drawn to the smallest things that had slightly invested It's attention - "yo Hakita why is the sky blue? I'm used to it being red, also why is the sun yellow?" - when they had come to the end of the scenic path around the park and had to return to the house, which still brought yet more questions from the infinite tap that was V1's ingenuity and curiosity.
"So is this car thing you speak of like trains? There were a couple in Lust and also some other levels - OH MY GOOD GOD IS THAT A MANNEQUIN JESUS CHRIST GET IT AWAY FROM ME GET IT AWA-" Hakita was suddenly reminded why he liked to avoid clothes stores with V1 in tow. Poor thing had a severe case of Automatonophobia. Frankly, fair. Hakita was scared of the damned Mannequins from when he'd seen them. Could climb on the walls like spiders. Freaky.
Despite the many difficulties that they had both encountered on their way back to the house, namely being yet another small rodent that V1 had grabbed, asking Hakita if it could "keep him please he's so small and fat I would name him Florp" to which yet another pout inducing "no, no we can't Vee. you can't steal random Hamsters off of the street." had to be issued.
Eventually, they had gotten back to the house, V1 was stripped of it's jumper - "nooooooo i wanna keep it it's so warm and nice" - and promptly got back to the basement where it continued to do what it had been doing before being shoved out of the house. Messing around with dolls of it and V2, and still being confused as to why Gabriel had a body pillow.
AN: Blegh this chapter fought tooth and nail to prevent being written, especially keeping V1's gender at least a semi-mystery because I want this whole Metaphorical sequence where V1 Comes more in tuned with it's new body and decides a gender to call itself but I keep writing His Instead of It's and its getting annoying and AAAAAAAAA