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Zenith woke up to the sound of her name being said.
"you've been out for a day. I just told your parents you got attacked by those gangs that put viruses into drones". She jerked up to see Natalie. there was another drone wearing a black hoodie. their crimson brown hair was messy and covered a blue mask. "and you are?" she asked the masked drone. "Jack Nyren. though everyone calls me EJ". He took off the mask, to reveal that his visor had been smashed, and oil had made new eyes, although it would drip every so often. "in case you don't realise, it stays for eyeless jack. I got plenty of other names, like the eyeless drone, empty-black-sockets drone, that kinda stuff"; Pilot-Chapter 2; "What-What happened?" she asked.
"You where attacked by hoodie, a proxy of the operator. in case you don't know, the operator is a rebooted wendigo drone. he goes about finding murderous, or ai-unstable drones to infect. you where lucky Natalie was with you. she gave me a signal so I warped over to you" EJ said. Zenith paused, trying to understand what he had said. She had survived becoming a servant of the anti-christ? it went from Benjamin breaking up with her to this? "They won't stop now. there are some at the school. apart from Natalie, I'll be your only protection. Masky And LJ would, but their dealing with their own issues"; "What? so they're gonna hunt me down until join them with their silly friend?!" she responded
"it's more complex than that. the operator wishes to show society their faults. by using those with issues" Natalie responded. "I was going to be a murder drone before.. my incident, so I know how to repair a drone, or make one. I can try and give you a bit of defence" EJ mentioned. he turned off to open a jar with some squishy stuff in it. he picked it up and started chewing it. then she realised. they where human parts. EJ was a wendigo drone, but he was tamer than most. "You-you eat that?" she said. "yes. I go out on nightly raids. I'm a marble drone, so I'm not controlled by the hive mind."; A marble drone. a wendigo drone not controlled by the mind.
"I forgot to say it, but you are also one. but a different version. one that survived nearly being taken over by the operator". She went over to the sink, were some batteries where. the apartment was a bit run down, but it was still functional. she looked at herself in the sink mirror. one of her eyes was an X. An image flashed. A white faceless drone in a gloomy chamber, held by inky tentacles. she knew it. that was the operator. she flashed back to the apartment and started chewing on the batteries. "The X is a scar of the attack. We'll know if you're in trouble when a circle appears around it"; Great. now she wasn't just going to be constantly hunted and turned into a murder drone, she now had a X on her visor. Why. Just why.
"we'll start working on your upgrades tommorrow for now, I will try and enrol into the school. two ally's are better than one". Jack said, chewing on what appeared to be a liver. Could it Get any stranger? a drone with a clock for one of her eyes, a wendigo drone that ate humans? she thought about it all as she walked home with Natalie, this time, more carefully