[Soulcore initialized. Power cells online. Environment scan complete. Organic lifeforms detected. Task: Verify with Isadora and apprehend Mariedians. Verification with Isadora unsuccessful. Updating Task: Exterminate Mariedians. Armament array initialized. Plasmatic cannon charging...]
“Wait,” cries the organic, with his hand raised. His metal is only an outer shell; a helmet and armor. “Major Q10, you are safe…”
[Searching memory bank. ZETTIDesignation:MajorQ10 not found.]
There is a second organic. Her skin is blue, and her eyes crimson. Her wings are clad in feathers and razors, and the spear she points at our chestplate hums with a deadly inner technology. The message is clear: stand down. Instead, our plasmatic cannon burns brighter.
“Does he not remember us?” says the man in the armor. “Do you not know me, friend?”
[ZETTIDesignation:Friend not found.]
“On their homeworld, they are melted down and reforged, reprogrammed. They forget the life that came before,” says the winged woman. “I told you there were no guarantees. He is remade. The eleventh design of his series.”
The man steps closer, despite the glow of the cannon.
“Major Q11, then,” he says. “I am named Sonlen. I am your friend. This is Queen Qhyrion; she is the one who reconstructed you. We are not your enemies. Please, lower your weapon.”
[Terminal processing error. Memory bank fragmented:Great Forge of Tarata:Programming fault diagnosed:Fighting Pit Z13:Task:Exterminate Sergeant D-46:MERCY:I am Vydar, and I have brought you to Valhalla for a purpose:I was created to fight, and so I do:Shiori must drink or she will die:ENOUGH]
[Memory bank files corrupted. Purging memory bank.]
[Friend. ZETTIDesignation:Sonlen.]
Queen Qhyrion lowers her spear. “I have given you an arsenal. Cannons, rockets, a hammer designed by Vydar himself.”
“Use them to protect your friends,” says Sonlen. “Only harm your enemies.”
We speak. “Identify our enemy.”
“He is a Valkyrie named Utgar,” says Sonlen. “He is the greatest cause of our suffering.”
“Understood,” we say, and seize the hammer of war.
[Updating Task: Exterminate Utgar.]
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