Necessity4Fun
I'll keep trying, even if I'm not good enough...
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The more time passed, the more uncomfortable Len felt, making it hard to keep up with the 'authority' role he had been trying to show. Why did people keep remaining in total silence like this?! Interacting was already such a difficult task to dealwith but, tense silence?? That had to be the worst state of interpersonal communication, for sure.
With no reaction to go on about, the male vocaloid wasn't quite sure of what he was supposed to even be doing now. Just stand here and keep giving the offending girl some angry looks? ...What would Mr Stark do if he was in the same position? ...Probably shoo her outside while dictating the rules, then going on a tangent of how he needed space to work, or something. Yep, that did sound like him. Maybe one day Len could have lessons on how to be more assertive with the man... as well as those lessons on hacking. Len really wanted to get better at those and the man seemed very confident in his own skills!
...Either way... Mr Stark's ways would be no good to execute without the right 'aura' about oneself, so they were discarded for now. What else could he do to make his instructions that more clear?
The boy's gaze wandered around the laboratory area, through several tables and several ongoing projects, before landing back at the girl with the beer can. The trash bin! If there was one thing that would make 'throw that in the trash' than getting presented with a rubbish bin right on one's face! Mentally congratulating himself over this moment of genius, Len had then stepped outside of the lab for a couple of minutes, oblivious of the owl creature trying to return his pen and thus, forgetting to let it know of where he was going.
When he came back, however, Len could barely be seen behind a huuuuge container of trash that he had hoistered inside the room without much problem. Both plastic and empty packets of stuff weren't as heavy as their volume might make it seen after all, though maaaaybe he should have brought a smaller one instead. Oh well, a bit too late for that.
Carefully, he made his way back to the girl's location, slowly lowering the plastic green container of trash in front of her, then casually gesturing at it to reinforce the rules of the workplace. The beer can goes in the bin.
Crossing his arms pretending impatience, Len had then finally seen what their second guest had been up to, noticing the familiar glittery golden pen in between its oddly taloned hands that went against basic bird physiology. F-fascinating... though also a bit eerie.
"Oh, uhhh, t-thanks!", he had let out reaching for it slowly, making a huge effort not to internally cringe or give himself goosebumps, or just everything at once. No matter the effort though, his expression still spelt 'something is wrong' clearly to everyone involved.
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Heavy steps echoed nearby raising a cloud of dust on their wake and prompting the determined vocaloid to stop focusing on the ground and raise her head to see a man in what appeared to be a huuuuuge metallic suit coming in her direction. Oh hey! More people! Thank the Buddha, Rin wasn't completely lost by herself in a desolated land after all, yay!! That'd have been bad...
Upon such a realization, the girl had opened a grateful, hopeful smile as bright at the sun, raising her hand to wave at the big guy and properly introduce herself:
"Oh, hey th-"
And then the world around her had decided to go to hell. In a matter of seconds, the quiet ruined landscape was brimming with not very friendly-looking robots, screaming, orders and the repeated sound of gun-shots and lasers, of the like that didn't seem like they'd stop that soon. Cursed be her curiosity and just overall lack of common-sense.
“MOVE IT, IF YOU GUYS WANNA LIVE!” "Douglas! Watch the skies! Alice, cover the civilians and provide suppressing fire!" "...CLACKER BOOMERANG!"
One unknown voice echoed after the other, each with their own command. Unable to keep up with everything simultaneously and very very confused, Rin had ping-ponged her gaze between speaker after speaker until her whole system faltered and froze for a brief moment. Her vision had begun glitching out, flashes of light and images she couldn't really make much sense of popping here and there... Was that person... gesturing for her to move? In that direction?
Still not knowing anything, yet definitely not willing to be in the middle of it, the older sibling had quickly followed to where someone was pointing, fighting her overheating processor and about two different error alerts on her way there, optics sometimes blacking out due to the strain her entire system was under. Despite all of the odds, Rin had actually made it behind the cover, though not without tripping near the end and pulverizing more of the concrete debris with her unnatural weight as she tried to not fall.
"W-what's going on??", the girl asked in distress, her high pitched voice barely making it through the chaos echoing in the background.
"Tactical squad, return fire!" "Jerome! You picked a hell of a mission!" "RUN AWAY!"
“One thing about this world", the man right beside her had started in a bit of a threatening tone, "many people aren’t too keen on robot life here.”
Taken by surprise by such an unfriendly reception, Rin could only reply with a saddened 'O...kay' unsure of what exactly she had done to warrant that tone out of him. She hadn't even been there that long! At least some pretty lady had stood up for her, stating that the vocaloid wasn't one of 'them', whoever 'them' was supposed to allude to. Though still confused the female twin had made sure to mouth a 'thank you' at the other before she had taken off towards the battlefield and... transformed into a big gorgeous white wolf? It was amazing! That wolf was pretty much Rin's size!!
For a moment, the girl had been completely captivated by the battle at hand, watching the pretty white bolt dance in the air, leaving destroyed robotic parts wherever it passed. The sight of the technological slaughter did make the vocaloid wince a bit, but to be honest, these were bad, angry, shooty pew-pew! robots... She could understand that they were not the good guys and trying to hurt people... Not that it made it much better. Eventually glancing back at the grumpy man beside her, Rin looked apprehensive, about to open her mouth to ask him something but then a gust of wind blew her hair.
It was the wolf-girl that had come back to get her belongings.
Or at least that's what she had thought until the pretty white creature had lowered itself in front of her. ...Was it trying to tell her something? To ride? Rin blinked a couple of times, then tilted her head as she considered the idea:
"Are you sure...? Rin is a bit... heavy.", the other didn't react, intent on the plan, "Okay then...", she had let out hoping with all of her core that the wolf was strong enough to carry her without issue.
Luckily for both of them, it seemed to do so and the female android had easily placed herself on top of the snow-white creature, observing the new person that had come out of nowhere and started helping around. Here, on top of an animal mount, Rin felt excited and also a little safer. Ah if Artie could have seen her now! All she needed was a gun and the hat she had left on her room back in the MPF building and she'd look like a real cowboy! But on a wolf instead of a horse~
Of course, Rin doubted the man from before would trust her with even the weakest of pistols. ...Aaaand it wasn't as if her aim was all that great either. She had been playing tons of shooting games and the like to prepare and such, also some videos on this vintage web-platform called 'You-Tube'?, but not really tried using an actual weapon yet. But one day though, one day she'd be a cool cowboy too! Rin was sure of it!
"Chaaaaaarge~!", she let out playfully, not really as a command with her fingers in a gun position as she pretended to shoot the evil robots together with the others, "Bang-bang! Bang!"
Soon enough, however, the wolf had let out an angry growl and distracted Rin out of her pretend-play. What was making the pretty wolf-lady annoyed? The girl thought about it, observing as the new purple-haired woman threw herself against the enemy but also almost got shot by a friendly laser in the process. Okay, that-that seemed like her running around and Len being in the background yelling worried.
...Rin understood why someone would be irritated at this.
Then the wolf had started moving again, sending the girl a little back before ricocheting forwards. Where were the safety belts on this thing?! She looked around panicking for a while before recalling how people rode horses in old cartoons:
"Like... this?", the vocaloid had asked both herself and her ride, putting her arms around its neck and holding it in a tight hug, yet careful, being mindful of her inhuman strength, not wanting to hurt it in any shape or form.
More conversation went in all around them as temporary rider and mount jumped one of the jeeps, following alongside them. Since the wolf-lady apparently couldn't make her annoyance known to the others, Rin, after giving it some throughout thought, had decided to do so on her steed. It was the minimum that she could do to thank the pretty lady for bringing her to safety after all:
"Guuuuuys!", she yelled back at the group, "The wolf-lady seems angry at something, Rin thinks she's trying to get us to hurry up and leave because it's too dangerous here!!"
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