Eventually We Come Back

People always get mad it took me a while to save them, forgetting of course I was not required to save them! - Chronicles of Lorentino

"It's going to take me a while to get used to this." Shira had a new body, styled more like a woman, though clothing was apparently not something she preferred. So basically it was a naked woman robot body walking in front of me. Not fully biologically a woman thankfully, but enough of the form to prove distracting.

"You'll deal." With the body had apparently come more attitude, which was also something I was handling. We had made descent through the tunnels back down to the complex that was my prison. None of the morlatech people were there anymore, either they had left when the fighting started or had been killed in it. Either way it made the area feel more tomby than normal. Then again I guess I felt that because I didn't necessarily want to return, but felt obligated to save Luke, even if we weren't talking. Phil decided to stay on the ship, Shira said that was a good place for him and I didn't want the argument so it was just me and her. She had brought a weapon I hadn't ever seen before, some kind of rifle combined with other accessory weapons, it looked heavy. I just had a pistol and my sword, like a gentleman combatant.

"So I think he's this way." Shira stopped and gave me the eye.

"You think?"

"We hadn't spoken in months."

"So you want to find this guy despite not even knowing if he's still alive down here, and you hadn't talked in months."

"When you say it like that..."

"Updating logic circutis to account for you not having any."

"Extremely rude, note that in your file." Shira shrugged it off and lead point. We started to see different scrawling blood work I imagined was Luke's pretty soon after we got out of what I called "my" area. Most of it at first was just warning me to stay out of his area. Why he wrote in blood was confusing, but obviously madness hit us both differently. After the initial warnings though, it got kind of scary. Talks of prophecy and how Luke would ascend with the flesh to conquer the metal. I imagined we'd find the man rabidly just twitching in a corner having long devolved into unintelligent existence. I was kind of right.

"UNBELIEVERS!" The voice was kind of Luke's from what I remembered of him, but it sounded like full on crazy person. I saw his mostly naked body scurrying down a cat walk towards us. I immediately regretted coming to get him.

"Hi Luke, uhh we're here to get you." Shira sighed and I tried to smile as the former policeman shook a hunk of leg bone at me. Where he got the leg or the bone I didn't even begin to guess.

"The great deceiver returns, and now he'll get his eternal judgement."

"Right, you look good, healthy."

"MY LORD!" He called out and I heard the sound of wet flesh on flesh moving somewhere in the dark.

"Trezlan I'm getting a reading I do not like."

"Oh? I'm sure this will be fine." It was not actually fine at all.