November 9, 2022

In Harmonia's front lawn, there's a 40ft metal skeleton with bare wires and electronics exposed. It has a mint green eye and a crimson red eye that click and whirr as it looks around. It looks fairly old as the left eye flickers crimson red and it stares at the front door. Luna and Oleander walk outside when they see the monstrosity.

Oleander STARES. "Oh what the fuck."

"....I thought we were just gonna go save Lock, not fight a goddamn mech." Luna groans. Isaac steps out and looks up.

Its voice is staticky and slightly distorted as he cackles. Half of the voice sounds like a deeper version of Cole's while the other half sounds like an old synth. "Well hello, did you miss me?" Its exposed servos whirr as it adjusts how its standing.

"Do I know you?" Oleander asks the mech.

"I have no idea what the hell I'm looking at." Luna says.

Isaac squints

Cole peeks his head out and ducks back inside instantly. "Well clearly he knew what I am. its really a shame that you don't recognize me." It points to its eyes as it seems to smile. "Two people joined by a want to torment."

"...Andrew. And... mint green, that would be Max right? But Max wouldn't do that." Luna thinks out loud.

Oleander looks to Luna in confusion. "Who???"

"So I've been replaced by a new Max? How long has he lasted so far?" It chuckles.

"...oh. Oh... Gods." Luna realizes exactly what they mean. Then she turns her head to Oleander, "Andrew and Max, two of Cole's internal AI. However, this is the old Max, the one that was arguably even worse than Andrew ever was." And Luna was right. This was the Max that had been sent to Sayword Manor all those months ago. The Max that Amos manipulated. The Max that wanted to hurt others.

"Wait are you saying you want to hurt Cole???" Isaac sounds a bit mad as he walks up closer.

"Well fuck." Oleander snarls, raising his gauntlet to the monstrosity

Luna snaps her fingers and summons her broomstick. Then she pulls out her marked broadsword and prepares for battle.

"Isaac, I could crush you with one fist." It lowers a fist down to Isaac and stares at him. Isaac snarls as he clamps down on its ankles. It blinks and stares down at Isaac. The bite does nothing. "I could kill you but like...that defeats the purpose of torment and like not killing...so, let go."

Isaac snarls and thrashes trying to pull at the metal. It doesn't budge.

"I could inject you with a drug, but I'm gonna give you a second." It says.

"How about you don't?" Luna grins rushes in on foot and goes to slash at the mech's ankles trying to deal some damage to it..

Oleander tries to shoot the monstrosity in the fuckin FACE, while Isaac continues to snarl at it, not letting go.

A couple wires snap and its skull dents as it stumbles back and groans, "God damn, I haven't done anything yet."

"I mean you said youre here to torment us sooooo" Oleander walks over to Isaac and tries to pull him away

"grrrgrgggrgrrrrrgrgrGRGGGGRRRRRRrrRGRrgrrrr" Isaac has a wild look in his eye and is latched on.

"I mean Oleander's got a good point there." Luna continues her onslaught on that poor ankle, trying to destroy the base. It yanks its ankle away and slams its fist into the ground in front of Luna, shaking the ground slightly.
Luna blips backwards to get out of the way.

Oleander groans and tries to shoot Andrews eye, while Isaac continues to do his thing.

The eye shatters as it groans and screams angrily. It slams its fist into the ground in front of Oleander, shaking the ground. "WELL NOW I WANNA FUCKING KILL YOU!"

Oleander has an unreadable look in his eyes. “You can certainly try.” He backs up and attempts to shoot Max’s eye.

Luna floats on over to the mech's ankles and continues her onslaught on where its achilles tendons would be if it was human.

“Ggggrggrggrgrgrrrrgggr” Isaac growls.

The eye shatters and more wires snap as it screams and a high pitched whine emits from its chest followed by a 30v shock coursing through its bones and wires as it lowers its face down to oleanders and stares at him

Oleander stares back. “Got balls I can shoot too?” He asks with a grin. “I’ll make you the tormented one.”

Luna loses a lot of focus from the high pitched whine, but she manages to get back down to the ground safely. She joins Oleander in front of the two former eyes. Isaac twitches but stays latched on. It roars electronically as it tries to bite Oleander's arm with the gauntlet. Oleander dodges and draws his sword, prepared for another attack. It drags its head across the ground, aiming to smack into Oleander.

Oleander tries to climb ontop on the head in response.

ggrgrgrggr Isaac is still working on that ankle.

Luna aims a slash at the head looking to damage it as much as possible. Unfortunately, its metal so it doesn't do much. As oleander climbs on top of its head, it doesn't seem to notice.

Oleander tries to stab his sword into the head.

It’s solid metal and only leaves a dent as the head tilts to one side in confusion, "Oh? Is someone on my head?"

Oleander swears and jumps off before he can get fuckin yeeted, "So assholes, what should we call you?"

"Please, now that you're not capable of torment." Luna jokes.

"Not capable?" It bends down to Luna and cackles right in her face, loudly.

Luna's ears flatten and she defocuses immediately. "Yeah no."

Isaac lets go a moment before clamping down again on the back of the ankle.

"If you didn't think Krystal or myself was ready for sound based attacks, you're stupid."

"Least he doesnt have breath that can stink"

It lifts its head back up as the wires snap, Isaac is shocked with 60V repeatedly, "at least my hair doesn't look like a grape popsicle."

"You don't even have hair, ya bald dumbass!"

Isaacs eyes widen as he tries to stay latched on as long as he can before falling off "-AHH"

"It’s actually quite nice not having hair, cause then someone can't do this!" It reaches down its fingers and tries to rip a chunk of fur off of Luna. Luna rolls out of the way!

"Ar least I have hair bitch" Oleander tries to shoot them in the head again.

Isaac sprints at the hand to bite at the wrist

its forehead dents from the shot as it stares at Isaac biting its wrist, "...."

Luna launches a couple throwing knives at the holes where the eyes were.


"GGggRGgrggRGGGgrGRGGG"


The knives stick into the holes "I think just gonna," It aims its arm at Luna as a panel on its arm opens and several syringes are launched at her. All of them are multicolored green, red, yellow, blue, purple. Luna tries to catch them all using her telekinesis. If it works, they're all launched back at the monster.


Isaac stays latched on and snarling.

They all dink off of the skeleton. "This is just disappointing....oh wait I can do something hold on."
It turns its back to Luna and Oleander and stares at the sky.

Isaac starts trying scale the arm like a monkey with a taste for robot blood

Luna watches and prepares for the next attack.

It shakes its arm roughly as it groans at Isaac, "You are literally the most killable thing out here, I could smush you like a bug."

Isaac clings on with all his might

"Isaac is a hero!" Luna cheers.

Oleander looks at the sky to see what Max was staring at. It brings its other hand over to Isaac and prepares to flick him off, there's nothing visible in the sky. Oleander looks back at Max. Isaac crawls around to the back of the arm and up the shoulder.

It picks Isaac up with two fingers and stares at him. He tries to pull Isaac off gently. "I don't want a fucking rail gun aimed at me so just...off."

Oleander grabs onto Max, "Get railgunned idiot."

Luna calls into the house asking Cole to launch his railguns at the mechanical beast. “Cole! Railgun! Now!” Over in the Max server, a user named : ) tried to intercept the railgun request but was denied due to Luna’s interference.

Isaac stays on to the best of his ability but is pulled off

It puts Isaac down as it groans, "you’re a fucking idiot you know that? I'm not an idiot. I know Cole's every move! That doesn't help-"

KERCHUNK

"...I fucking hate you so god damn much. I hate myself too!"

Isaac grabs onto his hand before he's set down

"LET GO YOU FUCKING DUMBASS TWI-"

12 tungsten rods rip through him from all sides as it falls away from the house and lands on the ground with a BOOMF leaving a small crater.

"Get fucked." Luna cheers

Oleander lets go and laughs. "Lol lmao"

"Andrew even tried to stop it." she says.

Isaac is gnawing at the hand still "ggegrgrggrghgRGRGggtR" but it’s fuckin dead man. It died.

Regardless of the mech’s life or death, Isaac continues to try and deal damage to it by any means necessary, which means “GGRGgGrggrgGRGRGgrGGgRGRGGRGGRgGgr" can be heard from him.

Luna and Oleander checks it out to make sure it’s dead. They find a small antenna on its chest. Luna tries to open it up but it’s solid metal, however, the ribcage has small slots that she should be able to squeeze through and access. She does so and pulls it out successfully. It’s a small basic antenna with a red smiley face on it but with two mint green eyes instead of the normal red eyes.

"...Great." Luna remarks as she gets out. Isaac continues his onslaught while Oleander and her return inside. Eventually, Isaac joins them inside the house.