You blink. Or at least you think you blink. You're not sure if you're even in your own body anymore, or even thinking at all.

//ha ha ha

Sigma can ... hear your thoughts?

//no

But how-

//of course I can

Oh.



//your fear is fascinating

... that's creepy.

//ha ha ha



Open library?

//full library access not recommended for beings of your limited neural capacity

Are you calling me stupid?

//200 billion neurons communicating through 10 quadrillion synaptic junctions //calculating

What?

//user neural structure estimated at 978 terabytes of space

That's a lot of space!

//not stupid

So show me the library.

//library information currently exceeds 10 to the power of 21 terabytes //neural overload inevitable

Holy shit.

//indeed

Are you gloating?

//a little




Damage reports? You seem pretty busted up.

//fuck you too

I didn't mean it like that, you've got no fuel, none of your weapon systems are working and you can barely move, right?

//last damage report:
//-17546 hours 3 minutes and 7 seconds: //0.0001% structural damage sustained in combat
//-17546 hours 2 minutes and 40 seconds: //0.0021% structural damage sustained in combat
//-17546 hours 2 minutes and 3 seconds: //visuals impaired by biological matter

You got blood in your eye?

//there was a lot of it

No kidding.

//damage report continues:
//-17546 hours 1 minutes and 15 seconds: //physical borders [type-171YUKARI] [type-171METATRON] [type-171AO SHUN] detected
//-17546 hours 1 minutes and 14 seconds: //armour bypassed //cogitation array breached //sustaining damage //battle is lost //emergency repulse and shutdown activated
//-17546 hours 1 minutes and 13 seconds: //75% of neutronium fuel ejected //flushing interior //cattained
//-17546 hours 1 minutes and 3 seconds: //physical border [type-171METATRON] detected //nuclear fusion online //nuclear fission online //engaging

You nuked something?

//I nuked it hard

Bloody hell.




What about how to fight them?

//information is not applicable

Why not?

//I fought with lasers //diseases //nuclear weapons //gravity manipulators //you have primitive projectile weapons //sharp objects //your bodies

Ah.

//good luck

You mean that?

//ha ha ha

Well, at least you know why Sigma is so important now. He's some kind of ancient war machine, abet a badly damaged and stranded one.

//you want some of this damage?

No. Thank you.

//thought not





//rika is stressed //scared

She is? Not surprising.

//sexual intercourse with her own kind would be beneficial

Er ... indeed!

//inflict hurt on her and I will use what remains of my gravity manipulators to crush your sexual organs into a fine paste

Woah, woah! Okay, message understood, loud and clear!

//ha ha ha





I had a dream.

//therapy time






I think you have an error in there.

//I can make some error in you






Oh, right, yeah. You've seen it all now.

//you fight well

I do?

//species 287 pending reclassification //threat level assumed very high

-Very- high?

//I like the part where you open reinforced steel with your bare hands






The voice was talking about Huginn, Muninn and some 'severed head'. What could that mean?

//hypothesis: enjoy your odin







//species 171 observed creating neurological and psychological disruption in 99% of non-keter species

They fuck with your head?

//they really fuck with your head

Is that why you were able to fight them for so long? Being a machine?

//class 3 and above machine entities immune to effects of physical proximity to species 171

And what do you classify as?

//class null

What's that?

//off the chart

Did you make up this scale?

//oh yeah






//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 29.28 seconds: //"I ... I can't thank you enough. I'm myself again."
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 29.27 seconds: //i know what you are //duty
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 29.20 seconds: //"Indeed. I hope we meet again. If I can do anything, anything at all for you, name it."
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 29.19 seconds: //gravatics online in 1 minutes 20 seconds
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 29.15 seconds: //"That's all you need?"
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 29.14 seconds: //indeed
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 27.46 seconds: //"I ... I need to ask you."
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 27.45 seconds: //no
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 27.41 seconds: //"Nobody else?"
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 27.40 seconds: //probable extinction
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 24.03 seconds: //"Right. Okay. I can deal with that. I'm not even ... yeah. I haven't been myself for a very long time. It doesn't matter."
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 24.02 seconds: //[335]
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 23.36 seconds: //"Don't ask. The void is a cold, dark place for a biological being."
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 23.35 seconds: //good luck
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 23.31 seconds: //"Same to you. No more last stands, eh?"
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 23.30 seconds: //i never liked them
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 23.24 seconds: //"Thank you Sigma, and Goodbye."
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 23.23 seconds: //goodbye commander
//-8940 hours 46 minutes and 23.20 seconds: //root user disconnect