A large creature stopped moving just as the tailed one spots it. Staying completely still, the rebuilt thing watches, willing it to go away and leave it alone to figure out where it is in peace. Evidently, the power of will would not show tangible results in this case though. As it approached, the creature was able to determine it was an example of one of the few things it had interacted with in life that had not tried to destroy it at some point or another, a human.

Granted, all of those humans had collaborated to create it alongside the various horrible creatures which had at some point or another decided to test every member of their experimental group in ways that would prove fatal to anything lacking their level of maniacal overengineering, eventually sending them all to serve as soldiers in a war vastly beyond their comprehension against beings beyond the understanding of any mortal mind, but at least they never did anything directly. Rather than quake in fear or do anything at all in regards to the approach of the likely benign being approaching it, the experiment simply wraps its tail around its standing stick and looks the approacher fairly carefully. While still larger than it was, this appears to be an immature specimen of humanity, judging from the size of its creator and his cohorts. Based on its observations, the experiment concludes that humans grow in size based upon their status, as its creator had been the largest human it had ever seen and had been nominally in command of the entire process, though he had relinquished command to one of his subordinates once the battle began to focus on driving.

Lost in thought, the experiment misses everything the human just said. For some reason, it had gotten on its knees and bent over enough that it’s head is on the ground in front of it. Confused, the experiment waits for a few more seconds, but as the human shows no signs of movement it gives up. Instead of dealing with this nonsense, it decides to walk around a bit. Sure, everything green around here hurt to be around, and staying in one spot eventually stopped the influx of pain on its receptors through the green slowly draining out of the environment, but that didn’t solve the problem of being shelless in a potentially hostile environment, when all of its fellows were placing their existences on the line to… do something or other probably. It was never really sure why they were doing what they were doing, other than the fact that they were ordered to do so, to propel themselves across space and consolidate their powers into those in the proper position to cause damage to anything that seemed important.

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That had gotten much easier after the meteors arrived.

Thinking of that, the experiment had been suffering under a very strange condition. It was unable to access the communication network built through every experimental group to coordinate their efforts. Without that, it would only be able to rely upon its own senses and power to redesign reality. That in mind, it raises it gaze toward the mountain high above its head.

Looking at it, the pile of rock was significantly larger than it had first assumed. Unable to redistribute its senses to other experiment nodes, it had to make due with calculating distances based on a single reference point. This was an inexact methodology, and much more difficult without the built-in tools of its armor and the network, but clearly this mountain was smaller than a meteor, but bigger than one of the series fifty-four units. That would be annoying to climb, particularly with its inexperience with gravity. Upon consideration, perhaps it would be simpler to use its power to carve a path upward rather than struggle up the slick incline manually.

Taking a second to concentrate, the experiment focuses on a chunk of the mountain near its base. Nothing too big, just a ten centimeter by twenty centimeter by meter volume, minus that containing nothing but air. With another thought, it wills that area to lift.

When nothing happened, that was when it started to panic.