ACT ONE: 001
-TERMINATE THE WAIT?...WHERE?-
In the large Monster Hangar inside the dungeon core, which sat in Seero's chest, a large black and purple cyborg, Arachne, with waist-length black hair and purple coloring underneath, Lilussees was lying on a large pillow. She was a straightforward dungeon spider. She now has a human upper half because those weird man-things got to sleep more, so she chose this as the evolution path to sleep longer. Awayway, her mechanized spider legs moved as she tried to get comfortable. Then her head turned to the side as the silk hammock she made to rest her human half swayed, and Lilussees's six mechanized eyes lit up red while her two normal ones squinted in annoyance. Her cybernetic half told her that NSLICE-00P, or now Seero, wants to meet up to test new cybernetic components she has already made and equipped to see if they are also acceptable for Lilussees and the other dungeon monsters to use. Lilussees rolls her eyes, saying.
"Ugh, whatever, boss. You don't need to ask; all those fools would let you do anything to them and claim it's fantastic." Seero then replied with a message saying
"Affirmative: This unit is correct, but the friendly unit Lilussees will always have a choice."
Withasubtlesmile,Lilusseesstandsup andgoestomoveoutsidethisdungeonspace when a loud crack sounds along with a flash of light. Her scanners go haywire, and everything goes dark as she disappears from where she once was. An alert goes out to all units as Seero'sroboticeyeflickersrapidlyoutside whileher cybernetic and organic half stops doing anything else. With most of Seero's organic body covered in metal and her Geo-Oscillator, or dungeon core, now glowing a deep red inside her chest, the cyborg devotes all processing power to finding Lilussees as her signal goes dark. Even with her dungeon contact, she can't find Lilussees and Seero's organic components—heart rate and blood pressure rise as she sees a sizable SpatialRift, or what's left of one, where Lilussees was. Her one eye and mouth narrow in annoyance as Seero tries to track her down. She will find her.
“Rescue Protocols Active”
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Whispering Woods
Lilussees' cybernetic half started first, as the scanners and magical readers were calibrated assoonasthesystembegan.Aswhatever took both cybernetic and organic components offline could still be present and hazardous to continuous operation, when the scans showed a dense forest with plenty of magical creatures around them and no other people, they woke up their other half. Lilussees' eyes blinked open as she took in the surroundings. She sat up, sharp metal claws digging into the soft humus and moss beneath her, then realized something vital: she could not reconnect to the CELIU network, as even the dungeon contact with Seero had been cut off by whatever teleported her.
“Ugh… this is not good; how am I going to sleep now that I can't relax within Seero dungeon core?”
As Lilussees was getting increasingly annoyed, her cybernetic components did not stop trying to reconnect when the AI discovered that they still had 00B-Beta, the only one of its kind, a cyber elemental inside its processors,onlyatinyfragment.However, it's a being that is one with the CELIU network and constantly growing as it integrates with more and more golem drones and dungeon ships, along with any other technology Seero makes with that Cyborg metal slime. Melion, that little thing, is annoying but makes excellent beds and pillows when she asks, though he is mostly making newer, more powerful weapons because they were inspired by something in Seeros' archive. So, at least Lilussees can ask 00B-Beta if they can do something to reconnect with the boss.
“Commander Seero. Location Unknown. Error: Cannot reconnect to the main network. Find a better signal area and try again, or build a new tower to allow the signal to reach farther.”
Lilussees' eyes twitch as the situation becomes clear. She needs to move and make a damned e-word{effort} if they ever want to find Seero promptly, and looking up, Lilussees freezes in place as she sees bright, shining stars, something only Seero has seen in her original universe because Aelea has always been in a void where anything outside the planes pull gets ripped to bits as the whole world was flat until Seero saved all of Aelea from those damn cultists of The Herald of the New Dawn and remade and upgraded the world boundary—as a result, making the world round. Lilussees still doesn't understand what happened, but she is alive, so whatever.
So the cyborg lets her scanners do most of the work right now in finding where to go because she is not in the same universe anymore, which is a colossal pain in the thorax, and as the two man-things that Seero hangs out with would say.
“She's done a Seero.”
Even now, she is not looking forward to talking to anyone.
[60 Minutes Later..]
Lilussees is not having fun; this place sucks; all these damn bugs keep bothering her, which makes no sense to her. She is a way higher level than these things, and lower-level creatures never get close to higher-level existences unless they're man-things, and that's because people are dumb. Well, that's not the weirdest thing about the monsters here because none of them have an HP barrier, not even the plants, which is very strange. All living things have a magic barrier around them that shields them from all damage as long as it does not go over the upper limit of the opponent's strength. Even if they do get hurt, their mana will heal their wounds… Now that she thinks about it, Seero’s Equalizer weapon used what is best described as anti-magic, which allowed her to strip the HP barrier from everything, directly injure anybody, and disrupt all magic circles. Just as Lilussees walked along with the thick foliage crushed and shoved out of the way by her powerful body, 00B-Beta shot her a message.
“Unit Lilussees. Radio currents found-Intercepting…Error: Cannot connect to the main network. Encoded. Not enough power and weak signal= Recommendation move towards the signal.”
Lilussee's six robotic eyes flickered dimly, and she now had an area in her vision that lit up as the way to go. She sighed again and tried to find the motivation to walk away faster. She swears to Aesdes that she will snap if anything tries to annoy her.
Then, a popping or cracking sound echoed from the woods as large ancient trees crashed. Lilussee’s scanners and magical readers were set off as an enormous monster was breaking through the woods at an alarming pace.
Lilussees' eyes twitch. Looking up at the unfamiliar sky filled with shining stars, she thinks, “What in Aesdes did she do for all this work?”
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Back Of The Magical Beast
Finn was not a person to plan, mainly because they love to run and fight like her moms did all the time, so when a bug beast was seen by a village nearby, they had to help even if they had nothing to fight with… well maybe they could have thought this through more but–well…Finn wanted to help. If their moms let her train more, Finn would not have– their thoughts were cut off as a large tree branch slapped them in the face, almost allowing their claws to get ripped out of the bug's exoskeleton, sending them crashing into the woods below. The forest was a blur as the monster crashed towards a small opening in the woods, with the bug constantly bucking and slamming into trees to shake them off. Finn then yells out.
“Haha, idiot, it’s going to take more than that to get rid of meeeee!”
A tree that the beast slammed into with its horn then splinters apart as sharp pieces of wood slam into their hands and back, then– their claws slip out as they fly in the air, their tail puffing up with arms and legs spread out, trying to land on their feet. Finn closes their eyes as the ground and sky lose meaning as they sail with little hope of landing safely. Then they hear a tired sigh as a weird, soft, thin rope gets wrapped around their waist, pulling them softly to the ground. A large shadow then covers them. Opening their eyes, they see a massive lady with a spider's lower half, robotic parts all over them, and beautiful waist-length raven hair with purple accents. Finn has seen plenty of people before, even plenty of magical beasts, so they can say they have never had anyone as unique as the person in front of them. Then Finn heard their lazy and annoyed voice.
“Activating Aurora Dark Beam magic circle protocol.”
Then Finn’s blue-slanted eyes go wide in shock and awe as they see the largest magic circle–well, ever. A massive wave of magic spreads out as a black beam of magic impacts the Bug Beast, the blast making Finn close their eyes as the air whips around them, slowly opening their eyes. Finn sees nothing left of the monster.
“Thats-Thats… AMAZING!! I have never seen a spell so powerful.” The excitement is infectious. Lilussees looks at them with a weird expression, saying
“Ugh, like you weird cat-thing, tone it down. I’m not in the mood.”
Finn looks at them in awe. They wanted to be cool and calm with an edge of power.
“Let me take you to my mom's. They will reward you for saving—I mean helping me!” Finn then runs off during the time the Lilussees already need to go.
“Ugh, Like whatever, add protection protocol for that little cat-thing.”
Walking forward, I know this is going to be draining.