Any Random Stuff to do with The Race to Save Element Kind

One Zero S N Zero One

Hhhhhh-
I couldn't help it-

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Machines and equipment buzzed in an official building above the oceans of Tintenol. Well, accurately, that would be true for many buildings below as well. After all, Tintenol was known for being highly technologically advanced.

A crash sounded and a semi-girlish shriek came from the building floating on the waves. "Gah!" An eel-like gold tail with lilac fins flashed past and a male's white torso surfaced in the floorless sort of... Garage, almost. Pesko, his name was. Only seventeen.

"She can't touch the tisno, she can't touch the tisno-" he mumbled, frantically putting his workshop materials on the shelves. The walls showed just how much the workshop was rocking back and forth.

Pesko coughed, his gills opening and closing despite him not currently using them.

"I need... I need a core. A core. And a couple more surface plates."

He dove underneath to a storage facility he had constructed beneath the garage. He salvaged some smooth pieces of tin and surfaced once again, carefully fitting the plates onto the humanoid form in front of him. The form was perched on a sort of round island in the middle of the room, not activated or even capable of functioning.

He grabbed several other various wires, electrical bits, and metal pieces, both alpha type tin and beta type becoming necessary, and sat above-tisno to hammer away at the pieces. His final task was to create a system core. Then, his years of work and dreaming would become a reality. The hundreds of blueprints pasted to the walls in messy fashion would finally become unnecessary and his contraption would be real.

Hours upon hours passed like nothing, the spherical core taking shape with all its parts inside. Pesko himself nearly passed out in exhaustion several times, but he shocked himself awake with his tail.

"I need to stay awake... I'm so close... I just need to finish this one thing..." he mumbled to himself, taking another look at the core he was creating. The final piece lay to his right. A battery. He gently, carefully picked it up and placed it inside the very center, a faint blue light spawning as the machine whirred to life.

As if by magic, he was fully awake and laughing happily, the core hugged to his chest. "It's done! I've finished it!" He pushed his chair over to the contraption and placed his core inside the carapace and clicking something on. In pulling away, he ran his hand over the belt around its waist with a small smile.

It stayed stone cold and unmoving.

Pesko's smile faded. "...Why won't she turn on?" His heart sank in his chest, a defeated expression washing over his face. "Did I do something wrong?" He panicked- and in spinning around in his chair, he accidentally lodged his electric tail into the core. His nervousness sent a massive electric shock through his contraption, also causing him to cry out. He instantly pulled his tail out and hugged it to himself, eyes wide.

"No! Shit- no, I've fried her! I've fried her!" He ran his hands through his hair frantically and was on the verge of hyperventillating and passing out. He'd screwed it up. He'd screwed everything up- everything he'd worked for, everything he'd prepared for. It was all for-

A quiet, almost inaudible whirring noise sounded from the machine.

Pesko looked up at it, calming his breathing just a little. "...Are you... Awake?"

It didn't stir, but read out a series of letters and numbers in a default monotone.

"One. Zero. S. N. Zero. One."

His eyes were still wide and his heart beat faster in anticipation. "H-Hello?"

The machine's eyes opened, revealing hexagonal orchid irises. The soft lilac hair was jostled behind its shoulders when it straightened. Its eyes travelled to Pesko. "He...llo?"

Pesko nearly fell out of his chair in relieved surprise. "Hello! Er-" He thought back to the question he wanted to ask. "Uhm... What's your name? What will you call yourself?"

The female thought for a moment, slowly turning her head to look down at her body. She found the belt and ran her segmented hands over it.

"My name is... Iosnoi. Hello Daddy!"