bookpub Chapter 1184 The Story Behind 2
Chapter 1184 The Story Behind 2
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B-9 saw A-0 struggling to survive, gigantic tentacles constantly attacking their entire group from every angle. Their equipped weapons were strong, and they managed to pierce through the foe's defenses, but they still were overwhelmed.
"GRUOOOHHHH!"
The Titan-class Mutants we fought on the way here were a true nightmare against these Androids, and they appeared one after another. It seemed that humanity no longer had any power over the oceans, nor dominance.
These monsters, the Mutants, had overtaken the seas, and they weren't going to give them up to anybody. B-9 reached A-0, whose mech had been damaged and made her fall into the seas.
"A-0!!!"
"B-9?!"
She gasped as she saw him rushing down to rescue her, evading countless tentacles that came after him one after another, extending his hand towards her.
"You came for me?"
"Why wouldn't I?!"
Their hands touched, as he tightly grasped her hand, and then dragged her up, freeing her from her destroyed mech which fell, exploding into the frozen seas upon impact.
BOOOM!
"We have to get out of here!" B-9 said.
"B-But everyone else is dying!" A-0 said. "We have to help, to do something!"
"We can't, A-0! We're hopeless... this is beyond us! I told you that they were sending us to die! We're expendables to them, humanity... we're nothing to them other than junk they throw at their foes in hopes that something does something! T-This doesn't work like this!" B-9 screamed, carrying A-0 with his arms. "We're getting out of here!"
"B-But...! Everyone!" A-0 cried, as she saw countless androids exploding and being slaughtered.
However, many more managed to escape, those smart enough to realize the hopelessness of this situation, dozens of them rushed away, escaping from the monsters' attacks.
Eventually, the movie cut to them landing near the artificial island, on an extension of it. They were scared and confused at first, many of them were very wounded and dying. But there were... many as well, they managed to save at least over fifty of them, when they were hundreds.
"It seems many survived at the end..." B-9 sighed, watching the camps of the survivors. "But we need parts to repair everyone."
"But even after we repair them, where... where do we go? What do we do?" A-0 wondered. "We've deserted from battle... Now the Headquarters are going to treat us as criminals if we go back. They might... destroy us."
"T-Then we're not going back, as simple as that!" said B-9. "A-0... I... Let's start a new life here, away from humanity."
As they swam, they reached the other end of the pond. There was a huge hole only visible underwater, covered by a strange red coral.
"Hmm, what's in here?" A-0 wondered, swimming inside.
"Ah, wait, B-9! I detect... there's something there, a large quantity of radiation!" B-9 rushed towards her, swimming fast to grab her.
Even if small, if there was something dangerous there, he couldn't risk her life!
He followed her and entered the hole, quickly rushing to the surface.
SPLASH!
He crawled out of the water, walking over the cold, stone floor, looking around.
"A-0! Where are you, A-0!"
He called for her, realizing there was a huge corridor in front of him, where he noticed her footsteps.
"Where did she go?"
He started walking through the corridor, seeking her, while remaining silent.
Until he reached the end of the corridor, and then to the left, he found her...
He could see her back, staring at something, a huge silhouette at the end of the room, almost invisible due to the lack of light.
"A... A-0?" he asked.
"B-9... Help... me... I can't..." her voice muttered.
"Eh?!"
"I can't move...!"
As he activated night vision, he gasped, as he noticed something.
A monstrous being made of flesh and metal, with huge, crimson eyes.
"A Mutant?!"
"A-0!!!"
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