Roted (Rain world AU)

STRUCTURE REPORT

POV Five Pebbles

I hold up the orange pearl as I started interfacing with it and wiping all of the data inside of it

I started recording new information as soon as all of the data have been deleted

"This is my new diary, the first one filled up with too much information"

I pause before continuing

"The Rot has spread even more since the last entry, parts of my structure are starting to fall off and I swear occasionally I can hear it behind my Can's walls, at least my anti-gravity is still working"

*I let myself float up into the pearls as continued rattling off my thoughts*

"A Slugcat of turquoise and pink colour came into my structure, all the way to my chamber and it already had a mark of communication so I am assuming Looks to the Moon sent the creature with it being so close to her colour palette and all."

I lean back further lifting both of my arms in front of me

"it was around the size of my... puppet maybe even slightly bigger, I don't remember them getting that big naturally anything that is natural is typically small than me by quite a lot, even that light red one with the green neuron was too big to be natural but at least it still had the decency to be shorter than me"

*click*

"Unsettling noises are still coming from deep within my structure so that is unchanging"

I finished up making the recording this time letting go of the pearl and letting it float around as I bring up a holographic screen

"Where's the status stuff..."

I navigated the hollow screen eventually finding the place to see how everything is looking

"Ah there it is"

I opened up the file ready to record how much the progression was

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-FIVE PEBBLES STRUCTURE-

TEMPERATURE; 90°
COOLING EFFICIENCY; 20%
WATER; 40%
ELECTRICITY; 0%
BACK UP ELECTRICITY; 50%

RAREFACTION CELLS; 1/5
MEMORY ARRAYS; OK
INSPECTORS; GOOD

NORTH SIDE; GOOD
EAST SIDE; BAD
SOUTH SIDE; BAD
WEST SIDE; GOOD
NE CORNER; OK
ES CORNER; BAD
SW CORNER; GOOD
WN CORNER; GOOD
CENTRE; OK

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"How much more Rot until I can't think..." I ponder noticing that 'it appears that... STUFF has been taking my resources'

"Must be clogging my pipes for water... what possibly could that thing be doing with my electricity..."

*BOOM*

"HRRAAAA!" I yelled in surprise before quickly lowering myself to the floor and leaning against the wall

*BOOM*

"Citizen, you better not be doing anything weird!" I yelled up into the access shaft

"WA! WA!" My Citizen yelled back at me sounding like she was coming down the maintenance tunnel at high speeds

*Boom*

*Clank*

And sooner then reasonable to reverse the tunnel a slugcat dropped into the chamber being caught in the anti-gravity

"Hello Citizen, come for one of your usual visits I see?" I ask knowing I won't really get an answer

"WA!"

"Still loud as ever I see" I quip as my antenna folded down against my head finding the noise my Citizen made loud

"WA!"

"Don't you have a quiet mode or something?" I continue knowing my Citizen could understand me at least with a mark of communication

"MERR!" she made an upset sounding noise that was still grading on the antenna

Just as sudden as the noise, I felt something either in my chest or somewhere in the facility, it was hard to tell but it had me doubling over in pain grabbing my head as my antenna immediately pointed downwards "Ahhh!" I yell hoping for some relief from the pain but none came

*Boom*

A dark red ball of fluff suddenly made its presence known in my face as my Citizen wiggled her way between my arms and head "MERR?" she make that noise again

"Just, JUST go! Everything hurts!" *I yelled in frustration*

At lost my Citizen quietened down, before going to the tunnel going to my super structure inside "hay don't!- and she's gone..."

*I sit back down grabbing my head as the world didn't stop spinning, I turned off anti gravity in my chamber in hopes that would help, it didn't really help much either*

"RARRR!" a noise came from my insides

"What! Can't be quiet and it's not helping with the noise!" I yelled back

My Citizen came back into my can with a arm full of neurons and I could do nothing more than watch as they landed on the ground before she went back up into the pipe, three on the ground

*Boom*

"Don't eat my brain!"

*Boom*

I sit there waiting for her to come back wishing she was here

Eventually, she popped down again and dropped three more neurons going back up into the structure yet again

*Boom*

Pain filled my senses yet again as I attempted to cover my eyes from the light in my can as I rolled onto my side facing the corner closing my eyes

*Boom*

'How bad is my structural integrity at this point? Especially with miniature explosions and the Rot'

*plop*

*I move to turn my head to see what the noise was only to be engulfed by dark red fluff in my face* "MMEERR..."

"Hay!" But it was too late to fight as I was getting pulled out of the corner by my Citizen, and no matter what I did, I could not struggle away 'properly the damn rules on hurting citizens!'

Just as quickly as I have been picked up, I was put down onto the floor as my Citizen curled up around me "why must you be taller than me..." I grown as I was surrounded on all sides except top and bottom

"MER." She remarked as she put down that king scavenger mask she always carried around with her

I found myself leaning in for the heat that radiator off of my Citizen

I turn away from the lights and look straight to the ground trying to ease the pain in my head

"You my Citizen are the only tolerable Slugcat I'v met" I mutter not really knowing what to do as I started to feel a small tongue on my head

"what are you doing Citizen?" I looked up only to see her doing some sort of hand movement before continuing while purring

'It's a nice noise' I think as my arm comes around my Citizen's body? And my hand ruffling her fur

"MERR?" she somethinged before continuing licking my head.

"There's no point to licking me" I attempted to communicate across but she just continued

Eventually fog filled my thoughts as the licking head gone down to the back of my neck and I grew tired for reasons I have yet to still understand 'maybe my lack of power?' as my mind goes blank and I shut off for a little bit

(1146 words,
So the next two chapters after this one are originally from my one shot book as I started writing this AU as a one shot thing with character characters from LttM's world is how she originally ended up with J and now I kind of want to do this
Although the chapters from the one shot book will have some extra going over to make sure everything is fine in them
with this 1223 words)