𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒

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[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

⠀𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡...
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑠...

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

" It was told that the gods believed in something called Heaven... I wonder if we'll be able to reach it... "

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

📝: 1 year and I barely did anything with this. I'm gonna change that

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s "I heard about that. It's very upsetting, but it's to be expected. However, this colony has big plans ahead of it. I want to merge machine colonies together and make a civilization for the machines."

An idea that might be absurd, but they wanted to replicate the extinct humans.

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

There's been a large spike in machine sightings lately, all thanks to her.

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s "Mhm. As long as I can't be repaired, then that's it for me. But I don't plan to waste it."

Soon she stopped, now back at her hiding spot in the junkyard so that she could show 9S what she's been working towards.
An entire colony of machines, living seemingly human lives.

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s "I'd say that neither of us were truly free. Our machine network and your command. It just caused pointless fighting. I've been able to think for myself ever since I got disconnected from the network." She explained, taking a look around the scrapyard she led him to.

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s "The only reason I was ready to fight was because you drew your weapon first." She tried to point out as she'd turn her head slightly to eye the android.

"I only fight to keep my kind alive, nothing more."

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s ". . . ."

She'd take a long pause, thinking about how she wanted to go about this. What 9S said, it just felt like it didn't quite hit the mark..

She just turned her back towards him and started walking away, motioning the android to follow.

"I want to show you something."

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

She's been watching the other machines. They've been trying fishing for an hour now.

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s Her eyes widened once she was slapped, pausing for a moment before locking eyes with the android again.

"Maybe you're just too young to understand." She said with a quiet laugh. But it was true that her logic might be off, but it made sense to her.

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s as gods, the creatures that used to walk these lands. We won't stop until we complete that goal, no matter how hard we have to try."

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s She would just glare at him for a moment, almost like she was judging him.

"If that's what you believe, then you're quite ignorant, blinded by your own feelings and emotions. Us machines are constantly adapting so that we can live, not blinded by emotions, but goals. To become

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s "You're no different than us. Majorly at least. We just have different ideas and ideals. That's all there is to it."

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s "You want to know if we have souls? ....But then again, neither do you androids. I've lived for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, taken information from defeated androids, and learned."

The machine took a step back, afrown spread across her lips as she pondered her words.

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[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s back, so I have no use to you. That's what you're thinking, right android?"

She was testing the waters. If she did have to fight, she could easily call in machines to gang up on 9S, but she wanted to see.

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s Up close like this, she was a bit taller than him, looking down as she still wielded her sword. She didn't seem to back away, even with how close he was now. But it was curious. He didn't attack her straight away...

"Hmm... So, what do you plan to do then? I can't bring 'her'

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[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s She thought he would go into attack her any second, so she gripped her sword and watched even his slightest movements. "You androids have slaughtered our kind for who knows how long now. Peace lost its meaning already."

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s Those words, that hate, it made her tilt her head. It was easy to tell that they were the reason for a lot of his hatred, but it didn't seem to phase her.

"We've only just met and you already despise me. Maybe we're just fated to be sworn enemies.

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

@brokenbeing9s Once he drew his blade, she would follow along and draw one as well. It looked like a mock of standard YoRHa issued blades, but made with machine parts instead.

"Does it really matter now that you pulled out your weapon?"

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

machines, so that their numbers will increase, almost as if they're making a machine army.

Their main goal is to become a higher lifeform, like humans, who they see as something close to godly creatures, despite never meeting them.

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

⠀𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡...
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑠...

[𝐸𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 @BEC0MEASGXDS]

Just like a lot of other machines, this one has an obsession for human culture, integrating into it so much that they don't seem entirely like a machine anymore.

They hold over an entire machine base that was recently constructed in a scrapyard, and have been creating more-