“No no no, deeper breaths, and the by the emperor’s name control your empire-forsaken output as it is all over the place, no wonder you are failing over all the place like a newborn, you no sense of control!”

“Hey! You try it if it’s so easy! I personally think I’m doing this pretty well for my first time!”

Name/Fame are jumping from branch to branch, with Name driving as Fame, well, instruct but to Name its more like one-sided nagging.

“If it was good enough, then I would be praising you, in fact, trying to use your skill level to fight, hecc, not even that ice mage, just any creature in can sense in this forest, much less anybody stronger than the local bear.”

“Wait you can do that?”

“Of course you can! You are just so clueless I doubt you are the original owner of the body.”

“You said that before…”

“Of course, and I’ll repeat it until it no longer applies.”

Name lept off a branched and landed in front of the ruins with her arms out to her side and feet together in the shape of T.

“Tada! See! Who’s not good-” Name begun to swing her arms wilded swaying back and forth before falling on her face and tumbling forward until she’s back on her butt again.

“Hm-Hm!” Fame said smiling, Name can just picture it. “ I’ll give that a ten out of ten for sticking the landing but since you fell as soon as you landed, I can only give it it a 2, buuuuuuuuuut, since you entertained me I guess I can spare some bonus points, 6 out of ten your final score.” Fame said while suppressing her laughter.

Name just sat that pouting as Fame just verbally rubbed salt on her wounds.

“Now, shall we?” Fame finally said after all that, humming.

Name continuing to put on a pouting face, just stood up and with heavy footsteps, walked back into the ruins where she first awakened.

Name slowly moved through the empty ruins, taking a closer look at their surroundings, step by step. After scarping the floor with her foot, she slowly approached a wall, scraping away the vegetation. Revealing iridescent metal, the same color as her hair, unmarred by any form of weathering or rust, covered in numerous runes for enchantments and circuits for power that has long stopped flowing into this place. Looking up she can see a collapsed roof, yet the metal plates remained and frames remained unscared, the remains now held together via the thick vegetation that grew between the plates and frames, where whatever material that used to cover it has turned to dust.

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As Name continued to walk see noticed numerous glass panels and pod-shaped objects similar to the one she climbed out of. When inspected, most of them have been broken, leaving only bones and various unknown material inside. The few intact was filled with fluids and withered or incomplete corpses with not only exposed flesh but wires and metals all meshed together as amalgamation. All except one of the corpse looked closer to dried meatballs than human bodies, with bodily parts that should be there missing from the tank completely. An exposed bone had multiple saw and two extruders. Name sees multiple groves, a deeper set in the form of runes, awaiting for an enchanting medium to be placed inside and a shallower set of grooves for yet more circuits and another extruder that filled it with liquid metal. The one whole body had multiple circuits ran down on the surface of their peeled back skin and many robotic arms, their blades stuck in the flesh as if they lost power in the middle of a process. The fluid itself that each corpse was suspended in didn’t look like water but some kind of gel, at least most of it is. There was a top layer of well, Name was pretty sure it was fluids from the corpse combined with whatever stuff that was separated from the gel.

“What the-”

“Interesting looks like they were growing bodies.”

“Wat?”

“Moving on.”

Name moved on. Walking towards her pod.

Fame seemed particularly cheery right now, humming the entire them they are here.

Name spotted the door she threw off to the side and picked it up again.

“Ah, just where I left it, Synthesis Unit 00.” Name said reading it again.

She carried it as she moved towards the pod, placing the door back on pod again, where it should be.”

“Ahem, we’re trying to search the pod for clues, NOT repairing it”

“Oh right teehee.” Name closed her eyes in embarrassment, sticking her tongue out, and shriveling a bit. She removed the door again, this time she gently put it to the side.

Name then went around clearing the vegetation off the pod. Like the other pods, it was made with the same metal as this ruins’ remains.

Though Name noted that their pod is significantly bigger and the only one still labeled.

“Hrmm, remove the panels on the sides and let me see the inside”

Name jumped “Oh wait, it’s you. Are you sure? Because I can only see it as one whole piece”

“Of course you can access the insides, or otherwise, how are you suppose to do maintenance if it breaks?”

“Good point.”

Fame can feel her rolling her eyes if she had eyes to roll currently.

“Anyways, don’t you find it peculiar that our pod is the only one running?”

“Huh?”

“If you see the other pods, they are filled with corpses, and more importantly they are off. If we are in this pod, seeing that we are still alive, I can only say someone was powering this thing and keeping it running.”

“Wat.”

“Let me put it in simpler terms. Someone made us or kept us alive.”

“Oh… yeah that makes a lot of sense.”

“Anyways try to pry the forsaken thing open.”

“How?”

“I don’t care how just fine a way while I think.”

“Fiiinnne.”

Name contemplated in silence as she looked around the pod, trying to find a way to pry it open as Fame instructed.