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RobotEclipse — Chapter 1.4 -Liquid Metal-
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Description Omission of Mention - The Planet Masters Saga.


"You're always hungry" Mirror dully "every-week, you engorge yourself with all the food in each establishments, that they are close to bankruptcy. Where do you even put it all??"
    "I am large and a gas guzzler, and ever since Xxaqz installed that program that allows me to taste my fuel, I just go nuts. Besides, all I had today was a mouth full of dirt and worms! and they were not even appetizing" Torque makes a face (which is possible because his face is a Dot Matrix, all except for the eye) "Come on let us hurry and find Turbine, then we can get something to eat!... oh, and look for the silver guy, or goop as it looks like" Mirror groans as Torque says this.
    While the two ventures even deeper into the Crunch Forest, Turbine is in one of the many caves of Mt. Leviathan, following the trail of Silver—it's actually drips of water that has been absorbed into the goop, it's heavier than the silver guy, so it drips out of him with bits of himself in it to give it a glitter-like texture—whom she still doesn't know what the guy looks like, other than being Silver in color (Didn't I mention that?).
    Farther along in the cave, something is poking out of some stones and stalagmites, on a ledge, and out of Turbine's field of view. A voice whispers from behind the rocks "(oh slag! they found me, huh, I really need this machine. I'm going to ignore my bosses order, and take her out! ...quietly, if I can...)" He wrings his hands, at the end—He sure likes to talk to himself, he's not well in the head—and quickly evaporated.
    Turbine found nothing on her way in here, but only a dead-end, she sighs "Looks like the trail ends here, nothing else but spikes all around ...heehee..." a mysterious mist appears behind her. She notices, but dismisses this as being a volcanic gas "I better look around even closer, and see if I can find something of u--" while she looked away, the mist solidified and a large spiked ball smashed the back of her head, her eyes changed to green the a split second after being struck from behind, bending her head at an odd angle. She staggered, started jerking around and is speaking unrealistically fast, glitchy too ">>>ER-rrrr-ROR.! MALFUNCTI-TI-TION MAL-MAL-MALFUNCTION-TION!!  ME-rrrr-MORY CORE DA-aaaa-MAGED!! IN-nn-VALID L-llllll-AUNCH-chch-ING SES-shshshshs-SION ERR-r-rr-r-OR!! MO.T-ttt-OR. SK.ILLS DIS-ssss-ABL-lll-E-ing!! CO...ND.IT...ION CR...IT...IC.A..L!... A..CI..DI...C B.UR..NS D.ET.ECT...ED...! MAIN....TI..NAN.CE RE...QU...I...RED... S..Y.S..T.E..M.S. S.H..U.T-ttt-T..ING DOWN" She collapses.
    The attacker stands over her "...Melodramatic much..."

*. . .*

"What was that? I think I heard something, follow me!" Torque and Mirror both emerged from the Crunch Forest, and are now at the base of the mountain "Sounds like something fell to the floor, and electronic, Turbine might be in trouble, come on!" they headed toward one of four caves that made such a noise, a Silvery creature stood over her "...Melodramatic much..."
    "WHOOA!! What the hell is this!??" Torque shouted loudly; The attacker was startled badly he disappeared.
    "What just happened? and who was that?" Mirror complains.
    "I do not know, but we got to find Turbine... oh, there she is.. uh oh, Looks like it clocked her in the head, these things can happen... Wait, the BACK of her head is heavily dented, that is not good, we got to revive her! good thing Xxaqz gave me the blueprints" Torque unscrewed a panel on the back of her head. He opened it up and opened it down, he flips a switch turning on the auxiliary power, everything powers up. Now he pressed a button, a control panel slides out, he flips another switch, the control panel unfolds and: flashing lights, buttons, dials, knobs, slides, switches, and levers are shown. He pulled a lever marked [Memory Core] "First I got to check if her brain is not damaged" metallic clicking and belts whirrrring can be heard, a black cube appears from the left, clang!, it opens bottoms up, showing two slots, the left port is occupied with a blue cartridge, and the right is empty. The blue cartridge is cracked and leaking and sparks are flying, a gold disc is poking out of the crack on the side "uhooo, I got to replace her memory core. Hold on, I think I got a spare" he removes the damaged core by pulling down, it snaps off. He activates his HSP—Hammer. Space. Projector. it's the purple objects above his wrists—the blue core he was holding dematerialized, and a Red core rematerialized in its' place "This is a backup, I have got two more, a yellow, and green one"
    "You actually carry around that junk?" Mirror questioned.
    "Yeah, ever since HAXXORED!! messed with your memory, Xxaqz has asked me to carry extra memory in case something like this happens (before it is too late again)" Torque countered.
    "oh, yeah, well, uh" Mirror muttered.
    Torque replaces the memory core, it snaps back in place, he pushed back the lever, "uh, ha hoh this is highly controversial", he is undoing everything, and everything goes back to normal "Okay that ought of done the trick, let us turn her back on" he twists a knob.
    Turbine twitched, and is powering up ">>>REBOOTING, REBOOTING. SYSTEM RESTART!... >>>POWER BALANCE ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED. LOGGING IN, LOGGED ON" Turbine is coming around, her eyes changed color, they are now red ">>>ALL SAVE DATA! LOST!... ... >>>BACKUP RECOVERY INITIATED... ... OK! AUTO CHECK, START!... ... ... WARNING! VITAL PROGRAM AND MEMORY INFORMATION WILL NOW BE DOWNLOADED INTO YOUR AUTOMATON >>>DO NOT DISTURB, BUMP, OR UNPLUG CORE FROM AUTOMATON UNTIL EYES STOP FLASHING RED, AND CHANGED TO YELLOW. Status: Downloading Information... ... ..."
    Her eye's are yellow now "She's waking up!" Mirror says.
    ">>>WARNING! YOUR AUTOMATON'S MEMORY IS NOW BEING REPROGRAMMED, NOW RECONFIGURING MEMORY TO LAST KNOWN STATE IT WAS BEFORE THE SELECTED EVENT HAPPENED. PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB OR UNPLUG HER CORE... ... ... >>>ACQUIRING LAST MOMENTS BEFORE CORRUPTION, YOUR AUTOMATON IS NOW BEING AUTHORIZED, THIS SHOULD TAKE NO MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES TO COMPLETE... ... ... ... ..." Her eye's shifted to blue ">>>COMPLETE! >>>RETURNING... ...Wher... Where am I?" Turbine says groggily "All I remember is I went into a cave, and then I blacked out... wait, why can't I move?"
    Torque went by her side "Here let me check this..." Torque opens back her panel.
    "whoa that feels funny" she says... After fifteen seconds of looking, he finds a red light marked [Motor Control] "Oh here it is, looks like your Motor skills has been disabled... oh! so that was what Power Balance adjustments needed, meant" he pushed/pulled a few slides, turned a couple of knobs, and flipped some switches. He pushed a button, a whirrrr, and ratchet sound told him she can move "okay, try moving now"
    She starts flexing her fingers, and joints "Good I can move now"
    "Hold still, I got to screw your head back in place... Okay, done" Torque stood up.
    "huh, what a relieve" She touches the back of her head "whats this?" she pulls back and Silver liquid is dripping off her hand "What the...? Now I remember! That guy sucker punched me when I wasn't looking!! it must've been the mist I saw oh-ho-ho-ho" She's angry now.
    "Calm down calm down, he fled when we entered the cave. Well actually he fled when Torque shouted, uh huh, Lets look around" Mirror suggests.
    "Yeah, ok, I was going to do that anyway"
They looked around, found some useless stuff, some furniture, and a few provision. After twenty-three minutes of searching, they found an assortment of documents.
    "Whats this?" Mirror flips through and reads selected paragraphs, and skimming through the rest, he found something that caught his eye "Hmmm...? Ooooh...! Hey over here!" Turbine is on a ledge, and Torque is looking under a rock, they gathered "I think I found something useful" Mirror has a gleam in his eye.......
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