Chapter 5

Authors rant corner from IT hell…

So today was pretty chill, just people trying to get me to fix their personal phones and/or tablets. Man you should have seen their faces when I said I couldn’t fix it! HAHAHAHAHAHA, then they were all “aren’t you IT, why can’t you fix it?!?!” and I’m all like “it’s not company property so I don’t know how to fix it… sorry” and THEY BELIEVED ME! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ahhhh, oh and big tits was one of the people trying to get me to fix things… dude, she’s like 5’6 and has a rack… man, she was the only one to not believe me and she was all “what can I do to get you to fix my phone?” all cutsey like and laying her tits on my desk… and I’m all, “you can (I REALLLY wanted to say: bite my shiny metal ass) go to the company you bought it from.”

Then I spent the rest of the day updating softwares on the company computers and dicking around in Darksouls…and writing this chapter… Today was a gud day.

Bolt POV

I was doing an experiment on the mana crossbows and mana swords to see if I can get the bolt or blade to get an elemental charge on the bolt or blade. I figured that if I could get a mana crystal with the element then I could make some progress on my research.

Then Tool opens the door to my workshop. He’s got Hammer, Nail, and Scrap. He then procedes to tell me: “Yo, Bolt, my man grey bees late in cumin ups, wees be needen te go afters him.”

Bolt: “I’m sorry I didn’t understand what you said, could you please repeat what you said.”

Tool: “I’s be say’n: wes be-”

Scrap interrupts: “Sir Bolt I do so hope that you would give us the honor of your company in our quest to find our friend Grey.”

Bolt: “oh, We need to find Grey, why didn’t you say so?”

Tool: “That bees what I’s tryin to say!”

Both Hammer and Nail are chuckling at our conversation.

We proceed to enter the cave, we have the extra maps that Grey made in case we needed to go and find him. We get down to the last floor in 5 minutes because we’re running and the fact that there are no more traps. When we get down to the last floor, we see all the wreckage of four-legged clockworks, most suffer from bolt wounds from a mana crossbow while the others are bisected. During our inspection we hear a loud BOOM. The group looks at each other and we rush to where the sound came from. When we get there most of the room is black from the blast. I see what looks like a larger version of the other clockwork down here except that the leg is as tall as I am…

Tool calls out: “I’s be sein sumpten in de bak dere.” While he points to an oddly pristine fixture and it looks like a blackened torso with a head on it…

Scrap runs up and confirms my fear. It’s Grey. Scrap then says: “Everyone, his motherboard is intact, he just needs a new body.” I hear a whistle coming from the engines of everyone as we all sigh in relief. We dismantle the Giant and drag Grey back to the base. Scrap also collects the dead bodies of the miniature clockwork.

When we get back to the base we immediately start work on grey’s new body. Tool wad uncovered a schematic from the place with the smelter, and wanted to surprise Grey, Heh, just like Tool. So we all start working on it. Hammer and Nail build the skeleton, Scrap oversees the quality of the goods, I wire, and Tool puts it all together. The problem is that the place where the motherboard would go doesn’t exist. When we look over the schematics it references something called an ‘artificial brain’… what is a brain…

I assume it is similar to a motherboard and that the Citadel we are camped above probably has the schematics somewhere… I, along with the others begin combing the Citadel for anything and everything. Although one of us stays behind to watch over Grey. Sense we all want to help Grey we start a cycle of who watches over Grey. However Scrap is exempt because we need his scavenging skills.

After a few weeks of no luck and Grey drifting in and out of consciousness. I honestly wish we could transfer him to a new body but Tool kind of dismantled every single one of the bodies we recovered from the Citadel. Well, we are all at fault because we used all the metal that we got from melting them down for our own personal projects. Mine is a larger Hub. Tool’s project is a more efficient tool-gear along with making the smelter run on mana instead of oil, this one is a joint project between me and him. Hammer and Nail are working on building a wall around us. While Scrap is making a… inhale… exhale… inhale… exhale… a *sound of steam output increasing* a BLASTING CANE… I will admit it is an epic cane. He even completed his set with the top hat, monocle, and pocket watch. Yes he made them all. I refuse to publicly admit that I want them but, I want them…

After another week of no luck I leaned against a wall in the factory district on the 14th floor. I heard a click and then I fell over on my back. AHA SECRET PASSAGE! I send a massage to everyone through the mini-hub I built. Soon all but Hammer is here because he needs to watch over Grey. We all enter Nail is in front with me. We both have a large slab of metal that could be classified as a shield and a mana sword. Tool and Scrap are equipped with a siege version of the mana crossbow we developed three days ago. The siege crossbow requires them to set up the tripod on the front and fire. Unlike the mana crossbow which fires instantly the Siege version requires a five second charge up time.

Anyways we enter prepared for the worst. We continue along the unlit corridor. Clockwork don’t really need light to see per say because we have an infrared, ultraviolet, and gamma ray light sensor we can switch to either manually or automatically. In fact this entire Citadel lacks any sort of light. During the war this gave us an advantage because the enemy needed light to see except the beast men and lizard men but they didn’t participate which was a good thing too otherwise the ambush tactics we used wouldn’t have worked.

Back to topic, we reached what looks like a study and while Nail and I guard the entrance, Tool and Scrap gather everything in the room. We then make a quick getaway. Sadly there was no schematic on the artificial brain. BUT there were schematics referencing it. Now that we know that there are hidden rooms, a new fire of hope is ignited inside the group.

AN: Cuz I had the time to write this in my boredom at my job…

With much love for you guys, except the trolls… you have a special place in *cough* hell *cough*…

now gunna watch sum Game of Thrones