Kong

1 day later

2B's POV

"I see a couple of machines hiding." I whispered to Nines

He nodded so I jumped down and stabbed on one of the machines. I slashed at another while ducking from his punch. I quickly did an ariel flip and slashed at another machine in half. When I finished Nines jumped down and joined me.

"That's it for this place." said Nines

We joined up with 8B and 22B who finished up their set of machines.

"All done here." said 8B

A2 and 4S also approached us.

"We're all done." said 4S

"Where 12H and 64B?" I asked

"Here, sorry we're late." called out 12H

"Mission complete." I said

"Receiving transmission from Anemone." said Pod 042

"Accept." I said

"2B, I have another mission for you." said Anemone

"We're on standby." I replied

"Our scouts over there said they've been noticing a lot of dead machines around. And the cause of their death seemed to be from a different machine. Find it and do whatever it takes to bring it home so we can let him stay at the Machines Village.

"Understood, 2B out." I said

I looked at the other and nodded.

"Split up into two teams. One team will have a Pod with them so if you find anything, contact us." I said

Everyone nodded so we split up, me, A2, 4S, 8B and 22B.

"A machine that destroys another machine, how do we know it's not going to destroy us?" asked 8B

"We don't, we just have to find it and detain it." I replied

"How are we going to detain it then?" I asked

"We'll figure it out with the others." I said

We walked around through the woods for quite a while.

"Nothing, not a single footprint or anything." said 4S

I touched a giant tree trunk and looked around for any kind of footprint or a mark.

"Nines, do you have anything?" I asked

"Nothing here." replied Nines

I sighed and kept looking around. About 5 minutes later I leaned on a rock with two weird looking sticks coming out of the sides covered in moss.

"Are they sure about the machines getting destroyed by other machines?" asked 22B, "We haven't even seen a sign of a dead machine anywhere."

I sighed but then the rock I was leaning on all of a sudden started to move. I jumped back and summoned my sword.

"Is this it?" wondered 4S

The rock kept moving and then it started to rotate, revealing a huge machine covered in moss. I got into a fighting stance but I saw something that made me loosen up.

"It's eyes are green." I said

The machine looked at me with curiosity. The machine wasn't as big as the ones with giant legs or giant arms but he was still pretty big. I slowly approached and it looked down at me as I slowly lifted up my arm to it.

"2B what are you doing?" asked 2B

"What Creed taught me." I whispered

I slowly approached it but my hand on its chest and it seemed to accept my touch.

"I guess we tamed it." said 8B

I removed my hand and backed up towards my group.

"Nines, we found." I said

"Understood 2B, coming your way." replied Nines

"So how exactly are we going to ask the machine to follow us?" asked 4S

"We'll see." replied 8B

I watched as the machines walked around and examined flowers.

"That's, a strange behavior." said 8B

"Even Pascal's machines aren't like this, they don't look at flowers and treat it like it's their child." said 22B

"It's behavior is strange." I said

Nines and the others approached us and they were also confused.

"Well, let's try to make it leave with us." said Avery

Avery approached but it immediately started smashing the ground and Avery backed up and aimed her gun at it.

"You said it wasn't hostile." said Avery

"He didn't do that to me." I said

Nines tried approaching it but the same thing happened.

"Unusual behavior." said Nines

"Everyone stop, don't go near it. I'll go." I said

I slowly put my sword away on my back with the golden ring around it. I approached the machine with both of my arms up in front of me to show that I'm friendly. He seemed to calm down and it began to approach me. The others reacted and got ready but I quickly put my arm up to stop them. The machines stood about 5 feet away, and stopped and looked down at me.

"Can you understand what I'm saying right now?" I asked

The machine looks at me then nods slowly.

"What the heck how come it's nice to you?" asked Avery

"These are my friends, they won't hurt you so please don't hurt them." I said

He looked at the others and nodded back at me.

"Okay, we're bringing you back to where we live is that okay with you?" I asked

He nodded and I nodded at the others. We left and the machine was following us close by.

"What should we name him?" excitedly asked 4S

"You want to name him?" asked 64B

"Yea, it'll be nice. Just like how Pascal has a name." said 4S

"Well, that's a hard one." said Avery, "Something that describes his personality."

"He's big and bulky but he seems childish." I said

I watched as the machine started to chase after a small butterfly.

"It's going to be a hard name to pick." said 64B

"Why are we even giving him a name?" asked A2

"Cause it'll be nice, we don't have to keep calling it a machine." replied 4S

I watched as the machine looked for the butterfly that was now on my finger.

"Nines tell Anemone we found it and we're headed back." I said

"Understood." he replied

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8 hours later

I sat on a log as the others rested. It was dark but the starry night was able to give us some light.

"Kong." whispered Avery

I looked over to her as she had her hands behind her head while laying on the ground.

"Kong?" asked Nines

"Yes, Kong." she replied

"Why Kong?" asked Nines

"Kong was a movie. King Kong." replied Avery

"Was it about a machine like him?" asked Nines

"No, it was about a giant gorilla." she replied

"What's a gorilla?" asked Nines

"An animal." she replied

Nines nodded his head and lay down next to Avery. Avery smiles and cuddles with Nines making me feel left out. A2 and 4S were also next to each other as A2 had her arm wrapped around his shoulders. 4S looked embarrassed as he nuzzled his face into her breasts.

I looked away and looked at the machine who's name is now Kong. He was looking around deep in the woods. These woods are different, thinner tree trunks but all of them were dead, no leaves.

'I wish Creed was here watching the stars with me.'

"Pod gave me the note Creed sent me." I said

He summons the note and hands it to me. I open it up and read the note over and over again. My heart kept beating faster every time I read the part where it said, "I love you too 2B."

'How much longer will you be away from me? You're a human, you'll eventually die.'

That thought made me feel lonely.

'He's only human, how am I supposed to deal with that?'

I looked over to Avery and Nines as they were cuddling each other.

'I wonder if he knows that she won't be able to be with him for long.'

I sighed and continued to watch the starry night.

"Pod, put me to sleep. If you detect any hostiles, wake me up." I said

"Understood, shutting you off."

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6 hours later

My eyes opened so I sat up and looked around. It was bright today and Kong was walking around the group.

"Wake up the others." I said

My Pod began to wake others up and they all sat up and got up. Kong looked around and sat next to me.

"I think it wants you to touch it." said Avery

I looked at Kong and it looked down at me. I sighed and touched its chest, once it made contact Kong jerked around and started pounding the floor in another direction.

"What's going on?" asked 12H

I immediately summoned my sword.

"Someone's coming." I said

Everyone became alert and got ready to fight. But then three androids came out arguing.

"Jackass? Lisa? Gianna?" questioned 4S

"Shut the fuck up." growled Lisa

"Sorry, these two won't stop arguing." said Gianna

"What are you three doing here?" asked A2

"Anemone told us to come here to retrieve Creed's messenger." said Gianna

"With us?" I asked

"Yes, she didn't want to bother you thinking you guys were sleeping or shut off." said Gianna

Gianna looks at Kong and looks a bit worried.

"That's the machine?" she asked

"Yes it is." said Nines

"So we have to wait back there?" asked A2

"Yes Jackass will lead the way back to our old camp." said Gianna

"Tsk." snickered Jackass

"Is there something funny?" snapped Lisa

"Shut up, mind your damn business." snapped Jackass

"Enough both of you." snapped Gianna

'I'm stuck with Jackass again.'

"Let's get going we have a long way to go." said Jackass