The cat notices Stefan's body being damaged.

"Oh come on, can't you go one hour without getting destroyed?" said the cat, slightly pissed off.

Stefan looks up at him with sheer anger in his sight, but realizes that his nerves are worthless, so he sighs deeply.

"It's no use… I should just shut up, I'll let him scold me." said Stefan in his mind.

The cat looks down at him then sighs. Rares drops Stefan down then opens the big sack, revealing a lot of jars with the juice the cat needed.

"There, juice. For a fucking lifetime. Do you still need more?" asked Rares.

"Yeah, 300 times the amount you brought." said the cat with a chuckle.

Rares smiles and pets him.

"You jerk, heh." said Rares in a friendlier manner.

Stefan slowly gets up, shaking.

"Fix him up. He's been through quite the adventure. I'll go eat something." said Rares before using the machine to teleport away.

The cat takes Stefan to the repair room and starts doing his job. Stefan closes his eyes and his system shuts down.

After another long 8 hours, Stefan wakes up. This time, he notices a weird mark on his cyborg arm.

"What happened? What's this?" asked Stefan curiously.

"Pull it and find out." said the cat.

It was some sort of small grey case. It did have a white button at the top of it. Stefan decides to press it, and a sword jumps out of it. Stefan quickly grabs it to analyze it. It has electricity flow onto it's blade and it makes a zooming sound when he swings it.

"Like your new toy? It's powered by electricity, so watch out with the usage. Thanks to the 2 scans that you've done on that robot, I was able to harvest important knowledge. That robot used a set of compressed armor plates, made out of materials that-..."

Stefan was so lost within his sophisticated words that he stopped thinking about it and he just zoned out and said "yeah", "mhm" and "cool" for the next few minutes until he's done. The cat sighs before speaking again.

"In short, your durability is doubled, you have a self repair system that uses enemy scrap metal and an electric ninja sword. A ninjato. Designed specifically for durability. Your blade will automatically shrink when you put it back on your arm." said the cat, in an unordinary casual tone.

Stefan questions himself why the cat is not as excited as usual as he places his sword back. The cat sighs before speaking again.

"I don't know if we'll be able to win this war… Andrew is a high ranker, and we struggle against mere minions. Sigh, one thing I know for sure is that Rares stands no chance against Andrew, but with the brand new addition of your blood flames mode, it might just do the trick. I just need to find a way to increase your blood energy storage capacity… I might just have to cut off electric supply for blood, but that increases the risk of blackout, because after the blood flames mode ends you can't defend yourself. Oh, and also, just now I found out that if your blood energy exceeds 85% storage it starts to weaken your body overall until you hit 100% to enter blood flames mode.”

“That’s a mouthful of words, do you never get tired?”

“Gr, shut your ass and get back to work! I’m not giving you upgrades for no reason. Disappoint me less than you did the last time and I’ll be happy.”

Both the cat and Stefan go back to the main room.

“What now? What am I supposed to do now?” asked Stefan.

The cat turns at Stefan and speaks in a more serious tone.

“Now, we will proceed to chip away at his army. Starting with the factory itself. We can’t allow him to produce more robots, or even worse, upgrade his current ones. You need to go grab Rares though, he’s out there. That fool is always eating at that same stinky place, tsk, they don’t even serve coffee in there.”

“Most likely because the coffee you like smells like shit-” said Stefan in his mind.

“I fucking heard that.” said the cat.

Stefan squeals as usual. The cat sighs.

“You will be teleported at a 100 meters distance from the place Rares is at. He’s waiting for you. Don’t fail. Only come back if you succeed in the mission.”

The cat opens the portal. Stefan sighs, then walks into it. Once he gets teleported he says with a frown “I hate that guy, he doesn’t even thank me…”

Robots suddenly spotted Stefan, this made him get back to his senses and start running away. He evades within a small alley where he vaults over a 2 meter tall wall, but to his misfortune, he falls down 5 meters. Stefan slowly gets up and rubs his forehead again.

“Ugh… This is tiring to the brain… I already hate this…”

But his bad luck doesn’t last long, as he sees a small restaurant in the distance.

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“Assistant, pinpoint ally “Rares””.

“Command “pinpoint” is not a valid command, please try a different command. For help say “command help”.”

“You useless junk…” said Stefan as he started walking towards the restaurant.

Once he enters the restaurant, the door's chime starts ringing. He sees a small bar with 4 seats. On the left there were 2 tables with 3 chairs each and so was for the right. Rares is sitting on one of the four chairs at the bar. He's wearing a pair of black jeans, a red vest sewn with black string and a black long sleeve shirt, his hair being short and black as well. Stefan speaks up with a passive aggressive tone and a frown.

"What the hell are you doing here?" asked Stefan.

Rares gets up from his chair, leaves 40 bucks on the counter then walks outside.

"Keep the change, I love this place." said Rares before he got out.

Stefan is confused due to Rares acting like he doesn't exist. He rushes outside after him and walks by his side.

"Hey, did the cat tell you the plan?" asked Stefan in a friendlier tone.

"No. He makes plans?" asked Rares.

"Well, uhm, yeah? Of course?".

"Never heard him tell me one."

"Uhm, he told me that we need to destroy Andrew's robot factory."

"Just like that military base 2 years ago?"

Stefan is seemingly confused by his words, as he doesn't remember any military base.

"N-no…?" said Stefan sheepishly.

Rares takes a deep breath and sighs.

"It doesn't matter, let's just finish the job. I'm fed up with this place." said Rares.

Rares activates his elementalist coat, his vest lights up red and his body is covered in a mellow red outline. His hair lights up with a hue of red and he casts flames in his hands. Stefan is mesmerized by his transformation.

"Whoa, that's so cool… Is that the elementalist coat?"

"Yeah, it is. Let's go already." said Rares, before bursting flames from his palms and propelling himself a great distance.

"Wait! I don't even know where the factory is!" said Stefan as he quickly rushed after him.

Stefan struggles to catch up to Rares' flying speed, so he gets an idea.

"Assistant, lock target."

"Target locked."

Stefan could now see Rares' body through buildings at any distance, his body being covered in a bright red cover. Rares reaches the factory way quicker than Stefan. Stefan begins to chip away a lot of electricity. He sees a random patrol exoskeleton. He takes out his sword, scans the robot, finds its power source, slices its top body, snatches its energy source, absorbs it and continues running. He puts back his sword and eventually reaches the factory after a few minutes. Rares turns around with a bored expression.

"That took you an awfully big amount of time." said Rares.

Rares turns around, casts a fireball in his hand, strikes a stance, he holds the ball with both of his hands, then, with a great windup, he throws the ball with his right hand, causing a great explosion on impact. Rares creates a spear of flames in his right hand and rushes inside. Stefan takes out his sword and runs inside as well. The first thing he sees is Rares completly destroying everything in his sight. He casts bursts of flames from his left palm and smoothly destroys robots with his spear of flames. A robot attacks Stefan with a fire extinguisher, hitting his back. Stefan is staggered for a brief moment and lets out a grunt, he grows annoyed and he quickly slices the armored robot in half and snatched its electricity storage. His body is fully restocked with electricity, so he decides to join the brawl as well. Instead of destroying robots, Stefan decides to destroy the machines which automatically craft them. He jumps up a conveyor belt, slices it easily with his sword then jumps on a machine. The machine quickly caught Stefan in its grasp, but he was able to slice it before crushing him. However, the claw was closed and so he fell down to the ground again. Rares throws a fire spear at the claw, blowing it up and freeing Stefan. Stefan quickly gets up with a smile and says out loud "Thanks!". Stefan rushes towards the next machines, but suddenly several robots with rifles arrive and start shooting at Stefan. Stefan manages to parry their bullets as he slowly walks towards them, then releases an electric shockwave, demolishing all of them at once. Stefan snatches their power cores and quickly absorbs them then proceeds to slice the robot building machines.

"You idiot! Don't cut the machines! You have no idea how easy and quick it is to repair and replace them! Kill the robots!" said Rares, as he kept fighting intensely.

A big gathering of robots swarm upon Rares and overwhelm him. A blast of flame bursts around Rares as he lets out a battle cry, his elementalist coat looms upgraded, the color being brighter and sharper. A flame is constantly bursting beneath Rares, keeping robots from delivering sudden attacks.

"I didn't think I'll have to use this here, I was waiting to test it on Andrew, but here we go. Combat coat mode." said Rares.

Rares casts a piercing blast of flames which pierces through dozens of robots and blows them up instantly, causing the building to shake. Stefan is shocked by the sudden quake and tries his best to recover.

"Don't just stand there you useless fuck! Do something! Do I really need to tell you in person?! Stop being useless! Fight!" screamed out Rares as he kept fighting.

Except… Stefan just… Stand there. He's fed up with everything and everyone, he's not willing to fight anymore. His sword stops flashing electricity onto his blade, his circuits turn off and his electricity runs out. Stefan looks down, purely annoyed.

"I don't even care at this point… they can kill me… I don't have a future anyways…" said Stefan in his mind, as he stood still.

Robots take the chance and attack him from behind with a metal pole. Stefan is knocked down, dropping his sword. He slowly attempts to stand up, his arms shaking. An armored robot stomp his head into the ground and holds it there.

"Tsk, fine! Die then! You were nothing but a weapon anyways!" said Rares out loud, as he kept fighting.

The word "weapon" echoes through Stefans mind, he faintly remembers the events that happened 2 years ago, the way he tried to rebel against the cat, the beating he received from Andrew. Stefan's circuits start to slowly flash again.

"I… am not… a weapon!" said Stefan out loud, as blood flames mode activated.

He instantly grabs the leg of the robot and throws it at the wall, then shoots a blue flame blast from his cyborg arm, blowing it up into oblivion and causing great damage to the building. Rares runs out of energy and his elementalist coat turns off. An exoskeleton rushes him, and right before it would land a direct hit, Stefan appears right in front of Rares, punches the robot at speeds almost as high as mach 0.5 with his left fist, then instantly casts a burst of flames, which instantly blows up and incinerates half of the factory as a whole.

"Weapon?" said Stefan.

"I'll show you a weapon!" said Stefan with an angry tone as he turned around and slapped Rares with the back of his hand, knocking him an insane distance, passing through the factory itself.

The impact is so great that the factory itself can not be stable anymore and as a consequence it crashes right onto Stefan. Mere seconds pass and Stefan rises through the dust and rubble with visible scratches, but no significant damage. His blood flames mode deactivates and his circuits boot up once more. Stefan proceeds to scan the entire factory's odds and ends. Surprisingly enough, he was able to harvest data from the documents buried underneath. Stefan looks at Rares, with a less angrier expression.

"He didn't care about me, I won't care about him." said Stefan in his mind before walking away.

Rares tried his best to slowly get up and stabilize himself. Panting, he looks in great shock and surprise at Stefan. He tries to massage his left arm gently to ease the pain, but now, he knows that his words have consequences.