PART: 4

the alarm went up soldiers didn't know what was out there but still went into position and prepared for the worst.

"Alright men! We practiced for this! we don't know what's behind that door but raise your weapon!" the commander encourages the people willing to sacrifice their lives for the rest, their weapons aimed at the door, waiting for the machines to break in.

"HOLD YOUR GROUND"

the intensity is rising, and worries mixed with fury for them have stayed in the box for a long time. just waiting and waiting. nothing happened, "why is everything so quiet?" that's the question many of the living ask, but the captain doesn't let the guard down.

"Check the CCTV"'

"Yes sir"

"those bastards are onto something"

just when the first image was shown, the soldiers were surprised to see two kids out there.

"sir! You should see this" he brought the tablet to the general, and just like the rest, he was stunned by the familiar face of the boy who somehow managed to be alive that long.

"Open the door!"

everyone was confused, but they couldn't help. the door slowly unlocks with the heavy shield being pulled aside. there's no machine or danger, only Jake and the girl he brought with or being brought by her.

"what the hell..."

"is that the kid who"

"yeah..."

the leader of the bunker quickly meets him, his face shows worriesness upon seeing him finally return the night when he took the pod. "Boy! Are you hurt? are you okay?"

Jake: "I'm alright alright! jeez"

"Jesus, what are you thinking about going out alone?! you made the whole base go into alarm mode last night"

Jake: "Wait really? omg, I fudged up..."

"eh, the second part was made up. but you cost us a lot of time on that pod tho. ahem, where did you go and where's the pod?"

Jake: "Eh I.."

Luna with a meh face, clears her voice so as not to sound like an A.I: "he saved me, I sent a message to him out there using a strong tower"

the captain finally noticed her: "Oh, hey there, didn't expect this dude here would bring a survivor home" he then signaled the people inside, that everything was normal.

Jake whispered into Luna's ears: "thanks"

Luna: "You welcome"

the general: "Alright, since you broke the rule and did something great during this time, I guess you must be timed out in here and not allowed to go up here for 2 weeks.

Jake: "Wait that's it? you not gonna do anything else?"

general: "That's all, you like my son so I'll give you that"

Jake: "Oh... alright"

general: "The girl who you saved will be signed in our colony, make sure was not those Mimic" he looks into Luna's eyes carefully "Nope, right, time to go in"

Jake and Luna taken in by the commander, seems like not as Jake expected. everything goes smoothly unusually.

Jake: "damn, that was easy. but what is mimic?"

Luna: "I think your leader is referring to the type that can disguise itself like a normal living human"

Jake: "Wait really? how did I not know this"

Luna: "The mimic thingy are mostly can be seen near one of these bunkers, I've seen how they did in action, by killing the victim then disguising like that person with full access to their memories and personality"

Jake: "That sounds dangerous"

Luna: "And the reason why the big boss over there is examining my eyes is because it is the only way to know if that person is not a mimic, by seeing there's a red X on their eyes"

Jake: "Hmp, interesting. let's go meet my friend"

Luna: "Sure..." She sounds bored

Jake took the lead and showcased the underground base for Luna, from the surface down to where they live. show her their home of hope.

John: "There he is. JAKE!"

a calling from two best buds of the boy, Jake immediately hops on to meet his best friend.

John: "Dude! Where did you go last night?!"

Cornie: "We were worried about your safety man"

their face showed what they said, Jake replied with a shaky laugh: "Well, we should talk about this at the glass dome. c'mon"

John and Cornie were confused, they saw Luna, and even more questions added, seeing her follow him. "Alright?"

quick skip when they are here at the spot from yesterday

John: "soo who is this lady over here?"

Cornie with a bright face: "Is this your new girlfriend?"

Jake: "What?! no, Luna can you return to your original fit?" Jake takes out the book again, and he flips out the last page as Luna's clothes return to their old ones, matters reforming and sticking together, John and Cornie watch in shock, that they can't even say anything.

Jake: "Check this out, this is the one who we read about yesterday"

John: "Holy Sh*t dude, is this why you went out and seek for her?"

Jake: "Well... no, but yeah. it's complicated and long"

Cornie: "So what's your name girl?"

Luna: 'it's Luna, Luna-001-DC. Death core"

John: "That's a nice name. Jake, is she the one who will save the worl-"

Luna: "No..."

the sudden cut by, she continues: "I'm not the saver of humanity, I'm just a weapon, I'm not like those superheroes who can do this. sorry"

John: "Oh..."

Cornie: "So... you can stop the infection?"

Luna nods. She looks at Jake with her eyebrows raised.

Jake: "Yeah... but hey guys at least she can protect us, unlike the other colonies"

John: "The other colonies were also overrun?"

Luna: "I couldn't save them all, I can only save one, the author of the book Jake was holding. after that, I tried searching for the big machine for information but got my core locked by one of them. those damn machines sneaked up on me"

the friends listened to her closely. their expectation has fallen now.

Lunathen seemed to detect something, her head just like a gigantic computer, "hey did you know your bunker has 10 mimics?"

John: "What?!"

Jake: "Oh this ain't good, you can see them here?"

Luna: "Mhm, they are down there, and I can see there will be a horde coming soon" She looked over in the direction she pointed, and everyone also pointed their head over, worry upon worry, everything went so fast now.

Jake: "Are you sure that you are not lying?"

Luna: "Hey, serious, how did you guys even let them in?"

thinking about it for a second, the first thing slapped at Jake's mind is when his carrier and the survivors return after a day. 

Jake: "Oh shet... we have to do something"

John: "Dude, what are going to do? we can just go around killing imposters in daylight, especially with her, the whole place gonna be fall to pieces"

Jake: "She said there will be a horde of H.rC coming, this place will be overrun anyway!"

Cornie: "Guys calm down"

Luna snapped her finger, it was loud and clear: "Hey I think I can hack into one of the Mimic and make the incoming army of machines redirect away. just need to eliminate 9 and capture one"

Jake: "Do it at night, daytime is too risky"

Luna: "Sure but Mimic as I said, are very good at disguising themselves as living being"

Jake put the book inside his bag, and he told everyone to return to their room until nighttime for the action. Luna transformed into a Black cube the size of a Rubix. red LED light up and became her mouth and eye. 

Cornie: "Aww you are cute"

John: "She's definitely"

Luna flies into Jake's bag, "Whatever..." speaking with an annoying tone, she doesn't like being called like that.

Jake: "Alright guys meet at the cafeteria at 10 pm"

reaching down to the living center, Jake couldn't stop the unsure feeling, looking around, at the faces down here, it could be among them

Luna even talked with him to lower his feelings, but when they both got into his flat, Jake took a long breath after shutting the door.

Luna flies out of his bag and then transforms again into the shape of a human girl, it's like watching matter from the cube flow out and fly around to form limbs to limbs. each time he saw what she could do.

Luna: "You need to chillax my friend"

Jake: "How can I relax, those machines are among us"

Luna: "I thought going outside was more scary" She laughed deviously "Hey I can detect them around, don't worry, those things aren't around you"

Jake: "You sure?"

Luna: "What could I say? I am a machine, but not hostile to humanity... well unless they try and hurt me and my relative"

Jake: "Oh man..." he inhaled and let it out "Can you tell more about yourself? like where you came from?"

Luna sat down on the bed, crossed legs. "I came from a son of the god A.I, and a lady of all evils. that sounds messed up right?"

Jake: "Hmm, meh, yeah I guess, I didn't think machines can create uh... their kid?"

Luna laughed out loud, like that was the first thing she heard after many years "Oh god, you dirty human mind. Hahahahaha! No, like their blood god fused and created me"

Jake: "Oh..."

Luna: "Soo, just like that, we live like a family and have a great time, some moments my dad was like being depressed, but that turned out very quickly. until one day at the beach were we having a vacation, my dad had his last fight with some kind of hybrid of mutated human and Core"

Jake: "Did he?"

Luna: "Died... core got erased. and from that moment the infection began to spread, and I believe that bastard is the one responsible for all of these crimes"

Jake: "So you are the first one to witness it all"

Luna: "My mother and I tried to save the world but..." She closed her eyes "A painful death. but at least she isn't suffering from blood thirst anymore"

Jake looks at her with sympathy "Losing your family is hard right? I feel that"

Luna: "Oof, you are like me? damn bud"

the two look at each other, sharing the same condition, and don't differ from each other much. but the two quickly get cut off when Luna starts looking behind at a wall. "say... you wanna see how I rip out someone's heart?" 

the sudden question makes Jake slightly worried: "Wh- why you ask?"

Luna: "Your neighbor... is a mimic, left side" From her perspective, a red energy can be seen through the whole body inside that person. "c'mon let's kill it"

Jake: "Wait now?"

Luna: "Yeah, waiting is boring anyway" *shrugged*

before she could walk away with a small grin on her face, Jake tangled her leg and made them fall onto the floor with a *thumb*

Jake: "Wait! we can't do it now, at least observe what it does?"

Luna growled, "dammit..." her whole body turns into small particles and reshaped, picking Jake up on the ground using one hand, "There's no use buddy, from what I can see that person just standing there like a statue, it sending a signal to the hive. probably the rest will do the same. so, we are gonna kill it, do you want the people inside this stinky place to live or not?"

she gives him a raise from her eye, her red glowing X inside her deep irises, Jake couldn't help but comply with her order, "Okay... jeez"

Luna: "Good" Luna immediately jumps out of the apartment, and Jake tries to follow. the two took only a few steps to get to their neighbor's room. inside was suspiciously quiet.

Jake: "What is she doing?"

Luna: "You know this person?"

Jake: "Eh only meet her once. but... eh"

Luna knocks on the door, Jake looks around to see if there's anyone around, knowing things could go bad if anyone sees them do this. from the moment the door opened a bit, Luna took the chance to slam down, created a mechanical arm with the heavy booster on her side, and broke the door in half. the noise was quite big, making Jake begin to freak out.

"ahh, what the" The girl tries to stand up, but Luna reforms the arm into a ram device, the spike inside it pierces the lady's leg, decapitating her in the process. She tries to scream but Luna has already ripped off her jaw.

seeing this scene, Jake couldn't do anything besides watching in fear.

Luna: "Hey, dude, Look at this, this machine uses human flesh for its cover" She then tears away the skin and flesh on the lady's head, leaving behind a machine head, it struggles to escape but Can't.

Jake: "holy Crab. I'm gonna puke" his stomach is on alert.

Luna: "Yeah I calculated that you would say that. Hm how come these Mimics can go through the checkpoint on the surface, their eyes already marked with the symbol" She finished it by diving her Hand into the bot's body and pulling out the core. disgustingly, Luna crushed it and drank the black liquid inside it.

Jake wanted to throw up now, but he noticed her drinking the infection like some kind of drink: "You can drink that?"

Luna: "Yeah" she wiped away the stain on her face "These are called Dark-mater, and this stuff is one of the things that made me"

Jake: "Dark matter... a part that made you?"

Luna: "My dad told me, it sounds weird doesn't it?"

after finishing the rest on her hand, Luna summoned a glowing symbol like an editing tool in one of the programs on the computer, red crimson, it made a strange noise before making the whole body of the lady decay into particles. she absorbed all of it through her hand.

Luna: "Just like I thought, this one is sending the signal to a Unit, oh... it's pretty bad"

Jake: "What was it?"

Luna: "A tank I suppose"

Jake: "You joking..." Something struck through his head as soon he heard that word. "please tell me you joking"

Luna: "Nope, a tank is coming, we need to get the rest, before they come here"

the tank was a Unit that was made for destroying enemy bases. even tho there are not many of them, surely all of them will die if they make it here.

Jake: "We have to wait, can't do it now"

Luna: "Anyway I'll take this place, this is my apartment now. you should have a nap for tonight"