Seated peacefully, Metanoia was unfazed by the flickering light and silence due to the absence of the turning gears. What was she to feel? She was an android after all.

Though she could not feel, she most definitely reacted to something poking in her systems, which had no installations or plug ins to deal with whatever the thing was.

It was Hugo's mistake to leave Metanoia vulnerable.

Her hands sprawled to her neck, crawling to the hideous wires exposed on her backside. Her own program was telling her to rip them off. Previous programs overwritten.

It was a command, and it was executed.

She ripped the wires off sparing not a single second. Perhaps she had a little growing godzilla in her. It roared in it's own way.

And out from the ceiling she went. Casually bursting through the metal that kept her from seeing what true light was.

And maybe for the first time she felt something. Disappointment.

The light she hoped to see,
The light she was made to resemble,
It was no longer there.

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"Sir...-"

"God damn it 301. She's gone. She's gone! How the fuck? We spent two lifetimes on all of this and without a warning or sign the whole vicinity goes down and the spectacle of the show just blasts through the ceiling!?" Hugo slams his fist of metal against the wall of same material, denting it.

301 however was already praying to Metanoia that he'd be blessed in the afterlife. "Please don't kill me please don't kill me please don't kill me..."

The cyborg gives the blatantly hysterical boy a revolting look and walks away.

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Hidden away in a dark room, with an entrance merely in plain sight, was Hugo's trump card. " If all plans failed, just like they should, I'll do the honor of ending it all. "

Old rusty bulbs gave light to another android angel, armored and horned. Unlike Metanoia who was merely a figure, This one was equipped with the most powerful weapons developed by the cyborg himself. And he named it Kismet.

"It is destiny for humanity to be destroyed. To become shells and remnants of the past. I always knew that would happen, so I created you." His hand gently brushed through the hair of the android before him. "You will destroy Metanoia, and life will take it's course. Perhaps the humans will evolve into something more, like me. Though, it will no longer be in us to have the title 'human.' For if every part of our body is powered by a machine, changed into a machine, what's human in us then?"

He sighs.

"Emotions? Feelings? In due time humanity will figure out how to get rid of those too. Anyway..." Hugo reluctantly activates the android, which steadily opens it's eyes, first thing it sees is it's creator.

"Annihilate Metanoia."

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Short chapters because my brain isn't working jfhdhsh I hope y'all are alright with that༎ຶ‿༎ຶ

Anywaaay I hope the story is doing alright so far! (๑'•.̫ • '๑)

(Art by Hana on amino)