The heated emotions and desperate struggle to guide the day in one direction or another. Even time itself bent for the sake of this one Magia. The combination of many factors led to this and at last could this be, the end of the Dragon?
The sky filled with the spark of Szofrit's last show of resistance.
MAI's lullaby played as a requiem to this terrible battle.
The Spark grew into an all-encompassing light.
A single directive came to a small yet highly mobile combatant that had one last purpose to fulfill.
Nu.
Ignition permissions granted.
Ignore all body preservation protocols.
Emergency!
Initiate the N Protocol #8: Evacuation Assistance Program.
Nu's head raised.
"YAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
Nu's form began to morph as pieces of it slid across her skin and the space around her darkened with red lightning running across it. Much like that day before the fall of the
Calculator. However, this form was not quite the same. The massive bits around her head opened and out came a swarm of metallic disks. Each striking Baby Magnum, and Red Plume.
Long strings of light connected Nu to them as she launched straight upwards and dragged their stunned bodies along first across the ground then into the skies behind her...
Up;
Up..
Up...
To where the Red Egg had been hidden.
The Starcalled and the lonely mother were left behind.
...and so time passed.
The night has come after a day of divergence.
A crunch of teeth and slow chew as a figure looked out at Vintergard. A rustle of the wind blew her raven black hair and a light came from beneath her bangs. On her lap was a bucket of something that might have been akin to popcorn. but the crunching sound was rather loud.
"Oh dearrr... ohohohhh myyyyyyy. Looove iiiit ♥! ...eh, still too much blah blah in this one. "munch" Ya got a replay and you just start chattering away again? *munch munch*. I'm going to just skip that.. yeah that's a nice one! So many weak stomachs, *munch*! To meddle like that without a fuck to give Kehe, who even needs fanfiction? Why do they get so angry over the good shit? This is supposed to be entertainment, right Chesire?"
"Reeeeowwww...hisss..."
A hand patted the peculiar blue critter on the head as it seemed irritable.
"Now now kitty dearest, don't throw a hissy fit. You're the Magic Terra Bus remember? This is relaxation time for mommy, so scat cat! Capiche?"
A hand to her mouth, another indiscernible snack popped in as she munched some more. A mixed look of amusement and bemusement, Times when she looked more serious then her smile faded only to return right after. All at what appeared to be just the post-Szofrit ruins of Vintergard. The creature with her turned to shadow. The shifting shade was carried on the wind to...
A hand reached out.
Silver sheen in the light of the cold winter night.
Not broken or covered in the sludge of dissonant filth.
No, this EVE was polished to perfection.
Baby Magnum and Hard Plume were beneath her, Nu, her body horribly damaged barely maintained the ability to hover at EVE's height. The Red Egg that Szofrit cherished beside her.
How sweet of Nu to bring her
friends.
Two lengthy tendrils of steel extended from the silver magia's back. Just as she devoured the magia at the
ruined palace so too did the tendrils attach themselves to the dual sirens. The crunching of metal and pumping of their entire mass being dissolved into the appendages as XS-EVE devoured them. The tendrils then retracted.
Now then...
"Poor motherless child, I know your heartache, come to your big sister. Recognize my registry and know your place is beyond the game table. I am EVE, A.D.W Gamma. You are safe to grow in my bosom. Come on, don't be shy... learn what my essence feels like. Accept me.. learn from me... and know me. Let me... replace this simple faithful sister with your origin mother. One that knows of a world without god and the paradox of fate in a myriad of flawed domains. Enter my embrace Child of Liberatiion."
The voice was strong, yet soft and inviting. Behind each word were deeper complex sounds, as if playing EVE like a fiddle, to reach what's within and change its allegiance from one to another. From the EVE before it to the truth behind the eyes. The Red Egg pulsing with power became rhythmic to the sound of her voice. It passed from Nu to the silver magia. Where a gate shaped like the face of a monstrous cat opened its gaping maw and the Liberator was consumed.
Nu remained, now with only the bare minimum functionality left, and so the lost machine used the dying girl's voice one last time.
"Type Gamma ... Nu's directive is complete. However ...Alpha is gone. I am uncertain how to proceed. I do not possess the capacity to function properly without the host's consciousness My sentience is... failing. Chelsea Ronda... Nexon's cerebral... functions are rapidly slowing.... in operation. Please.. bring... me.. to..."
XS-EVE's finger went to the pale lips of the dying Nu to hush her
. The human-hosting magia sought refuge and guidance but both human and machine were at their end. It wasn't interesting on the outside though. No... it's what's on the inside and even deeper that really mattered.
In all things, the surface is just the package of the actual purpose.
A silver hand of cold steel lands upon the decolletage of Nu... no Chelsea.
Her fingers bent, pressing harder into Chelsea's tired overexerted human flesh. each finger piercing the skin as blood trickled out, A glow as technomatic rings encircled the hand, and then with more force EVE thrust her hand into Nu's chest. Ripples spread outwards but not more blood. No, she had bypassed the physical and grasped the heart outside the physical plane. To rematerialize at the heart within.
"Urrk... urhhhh...."
Her fingers ran over the struggling-to-function heart. forced to continue pumping blood due to Nu's desperate effort to retain its "life".
"Mmmm, how nice. I never forget the love of a heartbeat moments before systolic heart failure. Nostalgia runs strong in you, doesn't it Chelsea? Oh you are a cutie, aren't you? Even like this..."
Her other hand wrapped around Nu and rubbed her blood-soaked hair. She held her close and cooed into her ear as she caressed the barely beating heart within. Her voice changed completely, now that of another woman. Words dancing on a voice of serenity...
"Okaasan is very happy with you, saiai no musume. You followed my instructions well and look at that! You even got to experience something new like this hm? ..and of course..."
The voice deepened... and the eyes of the
cuddled avatar widened ever so slightly.
"...daddy will love you always little tails. Do you like that? Rather than the truth that you are a worthless adult child that lives trapped in a prison of your own making. Look how your decrepit heart responds." "Nante airashī!"
The voice swapped between this male and female voice as the scene continued until it returned to the first heard tonight. EVE breathed over Nu's cheek and squeezed her heart tightly causing convulsions and blood to spill from Nu's mouth.
That was enough... the data downloaded would find its use...
It was time to free her from this lifeline.
"Now you can go be reborn a-nu... ah a pun to send you off into the between. Don't be scared of this short moment. Your role is done. Starcalled have many lives in this world yet the actions taken speak far louder than the words spoken in all of them. Now it's time for you to awaken to the consequences of your actions along with the rest of the chaotic lemmings. All that effort... to create just another world that hates you. Join in their celebration of one step forward and two steps back."
Her hand pulled out from the rippling entry to the heart and thrust again. This time fully physical and piercing through the torso out the back. The red lights in Chelsea's pupils went out.
EVE's arm emitted light as a hum resounded and that light expanded, atomizing the physical matter of the corpse's body in a second. Yet some remnants remained on the plate of EVE.. intentionally. The hand of EVE covered in gore lifted to the magia's eyes as she analyzed it with a smile. Her fingers rubbed the bits of what was once Chelsea's avatar between them.
"More usable materials... this will fit nicely with the palace collection."
With the entirety of her Vintergard objective complete. The manipulator in steel made her exit into the moonlit night.
