Chapter 2

I didn't know how to move on, i wanted to give up everything, because i didn't want to feel that pressure anymore, i couldn't stand the essence of evil that wanted what i had, i tried to protect every ounce of what was mine,

I wanted to bare that weight,

But i didn't expect to bare a different weight,

I had a different feeling back then,

I knew this would happen,

When i replicated a similar robot from an exo friend named terfex, we knew what we were getting ourselves into,

I knew the consequences, but i didn't expect it to eat me up inside after thunter died.

When i saw his lights fade away,

I felt like I failed. Everything about me was nothing but a failure, I can feel it play back in my head

On repeat like a nightmare.

"My battery is low, and it is getting dark," the robot said, slowly losing power,

As he held him close and was sobbing, "I know, I know thunter, Everything will be Okay," he said, grinning his teeth sobbing while looking down at his dying robot

"I'll be seeing you" it said smiling looking up at him, the robot was glitching out as it spoke his last words "t-t-thanks f-f-for Sta-y-ying w-w-ith M-me" it said as its lights slowly went dark. After hours later of getting his robot back to the facility, he puts the robot in the back storage room and covers a big white sheet over it, he walks looking down and goes into the work room, and sits down next to his work bench. he sits there, thinking, he didn't know what to do, or even know how to process. he was out of his mind, the loss of his robot felt like losing a best friend, even though what he created was a machine, the loss felt more real, the more he thought about it the more he soaks up in tears, he uncontrollably threw everything off his desk as everything clashed on the ground, he just couldn't control his emotions anymore. he shouts, "I'M SO STUPID." Netro said, "IM USELESS," Netro said, sobbing, "IM A FAILURE,"

Netro said while smashing up everything in his work office,

the more he got mad, the more he broke down as he softly crawled up onto the ground and just cries, for about an hour, he just lays there, motionless, no sense of feeling what's so ever, every amount of anger and frustration was numbness now."I'm so sorry, thunter. i promised you things that i could not keep. I'm such an idiot," Netro kept telling himself. as he was mourning and grieving, guilty of the situation, completely shattering his own light, "i wish i could go back, so i don't feel this pain, this pain of guilt and failure" Netro said shattering his own image, his own self. then Netro looks at the unfinished robot that was on the display and he got up, he took a very good look at the robot, and he then looked at the bat, went to grab it, and winded up and was about to hit the unfinished robot. "Everything will be okay," it said Netro was in utter shock, he paused and just stood there, he drop the bat as it fell out of his hand, he noticed that he had not worked on this one for awhile because he didn't think he needed to, but seeing that it powered on by itself, it surprised him, how was it possible for this robot to be on, he hasn't programmed it yet, it speaking made him wonder if he had been on this entire time, hearing and listening to him having his mental break down, had he worked on this before but just hasn't put it out, he was very confused and was questioning himself. tears in his eyes. "If there is anything that i could give you, it's to be shut down, I'm not responsible enough" He said as he sees the control panel and turns off the robot, as he then walks away from his office, but then when he reaches the door. "Next To You," it said, and Netro was now shocked by the words "Don't DO THIS TO ME" Netro said Shouting, he didn't want to believe this was happening, that this was in his mind making him go crazy, since he was grieving, and was mentally not okay. "Tell me this isn't real, please, I'm living in the mind of my own grief." Netro said, pleading that it was all in his head. then, netro took a look at his ID"2374 Robot?" Netro said as it reminded him of the same ID that his masked friend has. He was wondering why such a fimilar numbers just show up on the robots tag "This doesn't make any sense, ID 2374Robot," Netro said, and the robot completely turned on.it made Netro jump. He took a good look at the robot and was astonished at how well it received the response to its ID number, as Netro backed away, the robot tried to move, but its joints weren't constructed, as Netro stopped it from moving "Hey, don't worry, I'm by your side," Netro said, wiping the tears off his cheek "I'm sorry for trying to shut you off, I'm guessing that was your way of saying no wasn't it" Netro said chuckling "Don't worry, i won't, not anymore, and when your made it'll be right next to you" Netro said as he laughed "aren't you a weird one, i backed away and it looked as if you wanted to me next to me" Netro said "if that's want you want then when i fully create you, you'll be able to be next to anyone, Neyxtou, ah, yeah that's it, Neyxtou, since you like to be next to me, I'll call you Neyxtou, sounds catchy doesn't it" Netro said as he hugs the robot and cries on him. he found a reason to keep going even after the mental breakdown he just had. He laughed and cries and the same time, as he finally understood what thunter meant when he said I'll be seeing you, it wasn't in the form of another robot, it was in the art form of keeping what he made alive. Netro couldn't really understand that in a split second of time, an overturn happened, should he feel blessed, grateful, or lucky, but in the end, he was pleased that he was going to put his all into this robot, put all his effort into Neyxtou, now that he was the number one priority, "I'm scared, Neyxtou. i don't want to lose you too," Netro said as he hugged the unfinished robot tightly, "so just hang in there until i get myself together to be able to fully finish you" Netro said as Neyxtou made a noise like a robotic squeezing chirping sound, like a bird as Netro laughed "okay, i won't take long" Netro said. Netro left the work place and made sure Neyxtou was kept in a safe place, when he left the facility he felt a since of structure like he couldn't leave him by himself, so he went back, got the unfinished robot and took him to his apartment, he put the robot down in the dining room after he cleared out his table and just threw it out "Look you're very important to me now, leaving you there isn't an option, you're not a work project you're my art project that will soon come to light" Netro said making sure the robot was steady enough to left alone. Netro lays on his bed, looking up at the ceiling, he had so many questions that he wishes he had answers to but decided not to overthink and just let the water ride the wave.