Scales My New Bestfriend

Leaning closer with her face only inches away from the scaly dead person, 02 pondered on something for a moment.

"I'm gonna name you Scales. Scales my new best friend!" declared 02 as she picked up the upper half of Scales and dragged him and her pipe back to the cockpit to clean and start spending their quality time together and begin an everlasting bond.

Once inside the cockpick 02 set Scales upper half in the pilots chair, before proceeding to the corner and assembling her 'broom'.

02 cleans her mecha out and piles all the loose pieces of it in a corner of the cockpit before going out to look for spare parts from other mecha.

After wandering around in this junkyard for what felt like forever for her, she finally found a cool looking mech about the same size as hers.

It was a coppery color, and had two 1 foot long protruding horns sprouting out of the either side of its head. With the addition of a of a very long and large cannon like gun attached to it back. Which from the looks of it looked to be detachable. It was indeed a scary weapon.

Two thick and heavily armoured arms were still intact albeit a few scratches here and there. The same could not be said for the condition of the hands though, they looked like they had been completely blown off from some large firepower laser.

The legs had deep gouges and dents in them but other than that they were almost wholly intact aside from part of the left foot looking to have been sliced off by some extremely precise and sharp weapon.

Walking up to it, 02 proceeded to try and drag the mecha back towards her base of operations which wasn't to far away.

She managed to pull it about 3 feet before falling to the ground panting in an unfemanine like fashion. She looked like a overdosed drug addict collasped crumpled up on the floor.

Hmmm guess I need to get in better shape...

Hmmm...maybe I could pilot it over there? Can't be to hard, it's worth a shot. I mean I obviously piloted a mech before so this should be a piece of...meatballs?

The first food that came to her mind was a weird looking plate of stringy food and meatballs.

'Odd' 02 thought to herself.

02 proceeded to blast the cockpit door off its hinges after wasting one whole clip of her pistol ammo.

Tada!

02 hopped up and rolled into the cockpit, smack dab into another dead body.

"A new friend! Scales will be so jealous." 02 said aloud, probably having more than a few screws loose in her head at this time.

"Oh this person looks like me, well sorta." 02 said as she stared at a bare bones skeleton in front of her.

Looking at her new friends attire, it looked somewhat similar to hers, it even had a little blue and green circular patch on the arm of its uniform like hers did. Well, except she was missing half of hers.

"This blue and green circle sure does look awfully familiar, I just can't figure out what on earth it is..." 02 complained completely missing the irony of what she had just said aloud.

Poking her new friends and turning them this way and that she found a something printed in the back of the person's flight suit.

"Bullsnipe?" 02 read the word aloud to herself.

"What on EARTH is a Bullsnipe? What...WHAT IS A EARTH!" 02 started to question herself more and more.

Is a bull a type of mecha?

And bullsnipe sounds so so familiar yet kinda off... like it should infact have a different sounding ending in general.

02 proceeded to look at the persons clothes as if in deep contemplation.

Finally deciding something, she stripped the figure of his clothes.

"Well your kinda dead so I probably need this more than you, ya know?" 02 said as she looked at the dead person who just looked back at her with that vacant look that all skeletons have.

"Ah fine! We'll make a trade, fair and square. You don't have a name do you?" 02 asked the skeleton as she seriously awaited for a response from them.

Silence.

"I didn't think so, a name is a very important thing you know, I'm a nice and upstanding individual so I will bestow upon you a name." 02 said as she began to act like she was the queen of wisdom herself.

"Ahem" After clearing her throat for emphasis of how important these next few words of hers would be, she slyly looked around the cockpit for insperation.

Hmm. Broom? Nah to traditional I need a nice new age name.

After thinking of more outrageous names such as "Mecha", "Metal", "Deady" and the most normal one "Snipes", 02 was finally struck by what she thought was pure inspiration and from her own mind no less.

"From now on you shall be known as Meatball, keep this name close to your heart and remember I can take it back from you anytime I like. It a very precious name I'm giving you, you better cherish it for the rest of your LIFE!" 02 proclaimed as she began to fantasize Meatball going around to his other friends telling them where he got his great name from.

She wondered to herself in secret, if Meatball knew her bestfriend Scales. Either half of him anyway since he was kinda split in two thanks to her.

The newly christened Meatball did not voice out any objection to this arrangement, and this simply tickled 02 so much that she was positively oozing overconfidence now.