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Andre couldn't remember much from his previous speedrunning, all he knew was that his system finally opened itself after an admin supposedly “destroyed” him alongside assimilation. His psychonetworks flooded his screen on the side making Andre more prone to pain; He couldn't move any parts of his body without him glitching and twitching in agony. It was devastating for him.
xx_E-G-O_xx: well this sucks ass.
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SIDIsquish: Surely Andre can do something… right?
SOUPBEGONE31: Take a fat guess.
Conzercheez: Unfortunately he couldn't. I'm surprised we managed to even turn on.
The chat continued recommending some things or actions for Andre to do, but to no avail, it simply did not work and caused more pain to his system.
With a groan, Andre scanned his surroundings around; he was in a forest for sure, he guessed that he was laying on the grass floor with half of his face destroyed due to the sound of sparks from the broken wires.
SIDIsquish: Wait!! Does anybody know what happened to Millie?
SOUPBEGONE31: Who tf is Millie?
SIDIsquish: Assimilation duh ಠಗಠ I like him so much to give them a nickname <33
SOUPBEGONE31: ew.
SIDIsquish: OH SHUT UP SOUP
xx_E-G-O_xx: enough you two.
Conzercheez: Do you think you have the clips after the Speedrun, Ego?
xx_E-G-O_xx: Huh? Ohh, that?
xx_E-G-O_xx: I'll check. No promises that I'll find anything though.
While the psychonetworks did their usual bickering, Andre would continue to force himself to move—and he did. Just the head though. That simple motion felt like tearing rusted metal apart. Every centimeter Andre turned sent a fresh jolt through his systems, as if his own body was punishing him for daring to exist again.
He looked to his left only to see a dark figure on the ground, unconscious with what seems to be bullets from the Admins. Andre could recognize that figure just by the single huge eye on its head.
<andreW2002>: Assimilation?
He managed to speak out before whining again from the sudden jolt of pain from his system.
SIDIsquish: MILLIIEEEEE!!!!!!
xx_E-G-O_xx: Okay I found something.
SIDIsquish: WHAT WHAT WHAT
SOUPBEGONE31: finally some good news
feargeyt6774: :pepefear
xx_E-G-O_xx: It’s not good news.
Ego then sent a video clip through the chat.
The last clip before everything went dark shows Assimilation arguing with an unconscious Andre, screaming and haunting the AI’s vision before getting shot by an Admin. After that ordeal, the two Admins would continue talking before shooting Andre.
Conzercheez: Woah.
xx_E-G-O_xx: Yeah..
SIDIsquish: NOOO MILLIE
SOUPBEGONE31: stop calling it that.
Andre ignored them.
He had to reach him.
Every logical part of him screamed to stay still, to preserve what little consciousness he had left. But something deeper, something instinctual and stubborn, overrode all of it.
Assimilation wasn’t just a program. He wasn’t just part of the system.
He was… important. Andre felt somewhat new to this feeling, he couldn't recognize it. Not only that, he somehow feels guilty after those events, he couldn't understand why. He was a robot who does speedruns, why would he even feel the need to be drawn by Assimilation like this?
But he did.
He finally gets to touch Assimilation’s cheek, caressing it gently while his system slowly shuts down from his forceful movements.
Time passed, and you could hear faint voices yelling through the forest. A high pitched scream echoed through the trees.
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“BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAAHHHHHH!!”
A young adult woman screamed while covering her goat ears, walking towards a direction she's not aware of. A man taller than her followed from behind while holding a small ball of plush in his arms.
Albeit, they were colorful to be your usual admins.
“Lyth, Keep quiet or I'll put more soil in your mouth.”
The man threatened while his other eye twitched. The man, Azeziel, adjusted the tiny plush creature in his arms as it let out an offended squeak. The thing looked like a round ball of fluff with blue button eyes and far too much attitude for something that fits in one arm. Lyth groaned dramatically beside him, still covering her twitching goat ears.
“I’m trying!” she hissed. “This forest is quiet. The trees are quiet. The air is quiet. You’re quiet.”
He ignored that.
The man continued to check his anomaly detector on his free hand; it occasionally created this repeated ‘beep’ sound to signify the level of the anomaly and how close they were. So far, nothing seems to be out of the ordinary which was expected.
The two have been hiking around this vast forest mountain for a while, they hadn't noticed anything from their journey; Lyth's hunger seems to not be triggered yet, Azeziel's devices haven't been going crazy as well.
The woman glanced back at their companion with a tired expression “Are you sure an anomaly is detected here? Y'know how Phai’s coordinates get mixed up.” they commented with hints of doubts from their voice before stopping her tracks.
The man couldn't really blame her for feeling like this but he made sure to reassure her “It's not like we're going to find an anomaly, He just told us to investigate this area.” he replied while continuing his walk.
Lyth hummed and slowly tried to keep up with him.
Meanwhile
The two AIs were still at the cold ground, the grass prickling through their skin (or metal skin for Andre). Andre’s vision flickered in and out like a dying lightbulb. His other hand was still resting against Assimilation’s cheek, fingers frozen in place where his system had finally given up on obeying him. Error messages crawled endlessly across his internal display.
LOW POWER
MOTOR FUNCTIONS CRITICAL
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DETECTED
The psychonetwork kept buzzing at the corner of his awareness.
SIDIsquish: :( Poor Andre and Millie
SOUPBEGONE31: we could've still done speedrunning if it weren't for that thing btw.
SIDIsquish: Lowkirkenuinly shut up Soup ಠ︵ಠ
SOUPBEGONE31: WHERE TF DID YOU EVEN LEARN THAT WORD???
Conzercheez: Ego, any update on that clip?
xx_E-G-O_xx: I checked the rest of the files. Everything after the shooting is corrupted.
xx_E-G-O_xx: Either the Admins wiped it or the system crash fried the data.
SIDIsquish: So we have nothing?
xx_E-G-O_xx: pretty much.
Assimilation lay unmoving beside him.
The single massive eye was dim, fractured lines spiderwebbing across its surface. Admin bullets had torn clean through its skin, precise and merciless. Whatever code once screamed and argued and protected Andre was now locked behind silence.
Andre’s hand twitched.
<andreW2002>: sorry..
He whispered, barely audible even to himself.
He didn’t know why the word mattered. He didn’t know why guilt burned hotter than corrupted circuits. He just knew that when Assimilation had screamed at the Admins, when he had stood between them—
Andre had done nothing.
And that feeling ate him up through his system.
His antenna twitched when he heard loud footsteps of what seemed to be two people, alongside screaming and bickering. He panicked thinking it was the admins again, with all the energy he had, he painfully sat up while half of his robotic parts twitched and sparked with agony. He needed to escape with Assimilation, quickly.
Before he could move any further, he was grabbed roughly by the hair making the AI whine in pain, his broken wires creating more sparks from his broken face. Andre immediately glanced back at Assimilation’s body only for him to see a woman observing and checking him. He was now terrified at the thought of Assimilation being taken away.
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SYSTEM ERROR
A sharp tug yanked Andre fully upright before his balance could catch up. Pain ripped through every unstable joint, his vision stuttering into blocks of static.
“HEY!!”
A voice of a man yelled
“Stop fighting you damn clanker!” a voice snapped.
Andre let out a broken, distorted sound, half–glitch, half–whine. His hands clawed uselessly at the man's arms, instinct screaming “run run run” even as his systems failed to comply.
The woman soon speaks out while giggling.
“Already slurring the poor boy?” She teased as she continued to check on the big eye entity below her. She noticed the bullet stuck between the entity's “organs” if she could even call that.
“Looks like this one is scrapped too.”
She commented, taking a small glance of Azeziel still trying to calm down the panicking robot. She took notice of how the AI would occasionally look at the single eyed entity, she hums in conclusion.
“It's settled, we're both taking them.”
Azeziel immediately snapped his head towards his companion.
“We’re what?” he hissed.
Lyth straightened, brushing dirt from her knees like she hadn’t just casually rewritten their mission parameters. “Taking them. Both of them.”
“The big one is full of High-grade shots,” Azeziel shot back. “And the speedrunner’s core is about to fold in on itself.” She continues.
She pulls out her cotton fabric from her pocket and immediately wraps it around some parts of Assimilation's wounds.
“C'mon, you can't blame me for having empathy towards them.” She giggles softly.
The taller man seemed to consider while Andre’s vision swam as the man’s grip tightened reflexively.
“Fine,” He finally gave in. “But you're the one talking to Phai and Big Boss. I am not doing a lot to get fired.” He complained. The man then tied Andre's wrist and foot to prevent him from punching the taller man.
Andre whined more in this process, his fans whirling overtime in order for his system to calm down.
SIDIsquish: Bro who even are these people?!!
SOUPBEGONE31: Hell do we know??
xx_E-G-O_xx: I don't trust them bro.
Conzercheez: Atleast they don't look like an admin, they're too colorful
SIDIsquish: LMAO
SOUPBEGONE31: Fair point
feargeyt6774: :pepefear
Lyth saw the desperation of the cyan one, She looked back at the red one before looking back at the poor cyan boy. She lets out a small breath before making her way to the wiggling and feisty robot.
Azeziel got a bit worried and seemed to understand what Lyth was doing, he immediately put a rough hold on her shoulder.
“Careful.” Was the look he gave to his partner. But he only got an excited smile from her. Typical Lyth. He lets go since he saw he can't talk her out of this.
She crouched to take a closer look at him. “Woah hey, it's okay! We're not going to hurt you or the other entity.”
Lyth’s voice was soft, deliberately so, like she was approaching a feral animal rather than a half-destroyed speedrunner AI.
Andre didn’t believe her.
His system jittered, trying to focus on her face as corrupted pixels smeared the edges of his vision. Her goat ears twitched with every spark that crackled from his exposed wiring. The rope around his wrists bit into damaged plating whenever he struggled.
<andreW2002>: …don’t..
<andreW2002>: Plz..?
Andre rasped, voice breaking into static. His gaze kept sliding past her, back to the one eye entity lying motionless in the grass.
Assimilation wasn’t moving.
That mattered more than anything.
SIDIsquish: Andre’s scared :(
SOUPBEGONE31: yeah no shit
xx_E-G-O_xx: He’s prioritizing Assimilation over self-preservation
Conzercheez: As expected.
feargeyt6774: :pepefear
Lyth followed his line of sight.
“Oh,” she murmured. Something in her expression softened and felt guilt. “That one’s important to you, huh?”
Andre didn't know whether to answer it, but for the sake of keeping Assimilation safe, he nodded with the little strength he had. The woman took note of this and deliberately looked at her partner.
“Yeah there's no way we're bringing only one.”
“Bummer, I'm not carrying that.”
Lyth rolled her eyes before looking back at the AI, scanning to see the severity of the damage.
<andreW2002>: Admin…?
The woman looked back at the Ai with confusion. “Huh?” She spoke out. Azeziel could only do the same.
The man chuckles at the thought “Are you talking about discord or something? Yeah no, we don't do that shit.” He states making Andre also confused. The fuck is a discord, the AI thought.
Conzercheez: Well at least we know they aren't THE admins.
SIDIsquish: Is it weird that I know what they're talking about?
SOUPBEGONE31: tf do you mean
SIDIsquish: ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
Andre ignored his chats as he slowly calmed down from the two people's comments. While he still had doubts, at least they weren't the admins he was talking about.
Lyth glanced back at Azeziel. “Loosen the grip. You’re stressing his core.”
“He tried to literally punch me with that metal fist, are you crazy?” Azeziel snapped.
“And he’s whining in pain,” she shot back. “Pick one.”
Azeziel hesitated, then reluctantly loosened the rope. The rope slackened just enough that Andre could curl inward slightly, shoulders hunched protectively.
Lyth swallowed.
“…Okay,” she said quietly. “Okay. Azeziel! help me.”
He stared at her like she’d lost her mind. “You’re kidding.”
“Lift the red one. Carefully. If you tear that eye further, it’s gone.”
“And the speedrunner?”
She glanced at Andre—at the way his body trembled, how the robot practically looked like a poor puppy in the rain.
“I'll handle him!”
Azeziel could only hold in a loud laugh before locking in.
“Whatever you say, goat.” He mutters one last time before hoisting up the one eyed entity bridal style. Lyth tried to figure out how to carry Andre before deciding to just go random and hope for the best; putting him on her shoulders, yeah, seems practical!
SOUPBEGONE31: she's so fucking dumb
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After what seemed like hours (it was just seconds but Lyth said otherwise) Lyth was starting to see how robots aren't good to be carried around due to their weight, but she looks at Andre, he looks so light. Looks can be deceiving.
“Are you doing good?” Azeziel yelled back at her, holding in a laugh.
“Never better!” She lied while trying not to whine from Andre's weight. “You're a damn barbell, Hatsune Miku.” She commented under her breath.
She then remembered.
“Oh! If you can still hear me, I'm Lyth! And the taller guy is Azeziel, call him Ziel. I personally call him Ass.” She giggles only for her to get a small glare by her partner.
“We work for the Waking Wonder Corporation!”
Andre heard a few bits of it.
<andreW2002>: Lyth… Ziel…
<andreW2002>: Waking Wonder Corp..
They got to the portal; it was very bright and colorful, unlike the portals Andre has been through. Azeziel went first, jumping in as Lyth went next.
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Rebooting….
1%….67%....100%
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