AN: 4th chapter! Speedrunning this! In this chapter, V1 discovers the joys of road tripping, while myself I am doing the same, so yeah! They're currently driving east to LA through Texas. V1's gonna discover that texas is HOT in the summer.

As the fields passed by the window of the car, V1 was magnified to the window, and asking questions non-stop - "Why is that grass yellow when at home we have green and why is it so tall and-" - and Hakita was more focused on the road than the small child in the backseat, but answering V1's questions when he could - "It's called wheat, when processed we eat it as bread, it's tall and yellow because that's how wheat grows and-" - when they'd come up for one of the most important stops in the drive: A lake in the middle of nowhere, probably the Rising Sun reservoir. The importance of this being that Hakita had (using his engineering degree) made a Hydrogen engine, and the tank was running fairly low.

Obviously, the Hydrogen tank looked like a fleshy bag, but most things Hakita made turned out like that. One of the main issues of being cursed to produce things from that hellscape, after all. Parking in a hidden space and hopping the fence, Hakita moved towards the water, checking around for anybody that could notice what he was doing, and especially looking for any cameras. Assured that nobody was watching, Hakita lowered it into the water, it started making quiet slurping noises. Good, meant it was working. Returning to the car after filling the tank, he came back to V1 hiding in the passenger seats footwell.

"V1, why are you there?"

"It's hot, and I absolutely hate the noises the tank makes, it's like gross and stuff, who likes slurping noises it's gross like that one time I was vored by Minos-" What? "-and I was stuck in the stomach acid and if i stepped in it it would deteriorate my hull cuz it's like acid and stuff."

"The footwell will NOT cool you down, if anything it makes you hotter because there's a limited space and you're wrapped up in like, 4 layers."

"Wait, really?" V1 asked while slowly pulling itself out of the footwell. Suddenly, a solid THUNK emitted from the footwell, and V1 had gained a very shocked expression.

"Hakita help I'm stuck in the footwell I can't get out and since you removed my wings I can't just dash out or something" V1 said, increasingly sounding more and more worried as the sentence went on.

"Hold on, go back in the footwell for a second? Return to the pose you were in before."

"Why though? shouldn't I be going out more because then when I push past it i'll be through the hole and then i will be out and most decidedly not stuck anymore and -" Holy shit, was V1 an eel? God damn.

"V1 the best way to get out is to see what's the problem and then just solve the problem."

"Ok fine i'll go back and then you'll see that I was right haha eat that"

"V1 how the hell did you get in there? Even wrapped up like a ball you're still too tall for the footwell!"

"Well you see I just kinda crawled in upside down and - oh wait I probably just need to do that my bad"

Now that V1 had extricated itself out of the footwell (most notably upside down) it'd started grumbling incoherently about how it was hot, and that Hakita was right.

Now that the tank was refilled, and V1 was freed from it's constraints, Hakita turned on the car and continued down the road, meeting with the freeway and merging with the intermittent traffic. Despite the car's wishes to be fleshy and gross upon it's creation, Hakita had simply restarted the sections that were fleshy, and lo and behold, it turned out looking like a sedan with an engine that sounded like the screams of hell. Couldn't get everything you wanted, but Hakita could just pass it off as an EV, which is exactly what he did. Worked, too! While V1 may have been his pride and joy, this car was a close second.

As they passed into Richmond, with V1 thinking that they had already returned to New York and being kind of pouty until Hakita told it that they were stopping for food, and he'd be back soon, and (more importantly) to not go anywhere he could get stuck. Before He left, V1 asked for a bag of Peanuts, and a coke.

Hakita did not like entering the store, his mind telling him that it was an unfamiliar place with god knows how many people were in it (despite it being practically empty, he'd seen through the windows.) and that he should NOT be here. Regardless of his hindbrain's wishes, Hakita walked through the store, the halls seeming infinite in length on his way to the Juice aisle, picking up an OJ for himself and a coke for V1, and passing by the snacks aisle and nabbing a bag of peanuts and skittles.

On his way to the register, to Hakita the employee seemed to loom over him, despite being only a couple centimeters larger than Hakita himself. The pressure in the room seemed to rise as if on a crash course for the moon. Offering the beleaguered Employee his card, he bought the snacks and quickly exited the building, feeling relief from the constant stress and anxiety that came with being in an unknown place with god knows how many federal agents to hunt him down. Thankfully, he presumed, he'd not been found out yet. Taking a slow walk to the car, where when looking through the windows V1 was nowhere to be found.

Fuck.

AN: YESSS! Chapter done! I really wanted this chapter to hit 1000 words, but I'm afraid that i was just too far away from when I wanted to wrap up the chapter. This arc (I've decided) will be V1 and Hakita on a road trip, and Hakita having to deal with V1's BS, like disappearing. Good heavens, he must have seen a mouse. Despite my writing troubles, I managed to get this chapter (With AN included) up to three pages! Rejoice! Florp may make another appearance, maybe the cat as well. I am insistent on all of the gags from ULTRAKILL making it into this fic. See ya next time!