New body, New Problems

A.N: This chapter is dialogue heavy, just to let you know

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A.N: This chapter is dialogue heavy, just to let you know

I slowly breathed in and let out a metaphorical sigh, lungs or not it helped me calm down.

Ok let's think rationally here for a second. I know this is gotta be one of two things, either I went schizo from my time in the void and this is all a hallucination or splitting parts off my soul wasn't the best idea.

To test the water I tried to ask the robot a question, "Can you hear me?" The robot immediately spins around the room trying to look for the source of the voice then seeing there's nothing but trash and the barron interior of the shack, it began to clutch its head and then I heard my voice again

"Fuuuck please don't tell me I went crazy after being in that dark shithole for so long". This all but confirmed it to be option two, I then reluctantly started to talk with my new robo self "So you can hear me, alright at least we're headed in the right direction."

Robo replied "Yeah that's great and all but that doesn't really answer the question of who you are and why you're in my head", he said a bit forceful on that last part.

I let out another sigh before explaining, "Look stupid from what I'm gathering here were the same person you're me and I'm you. More specifically your the soul fragment I broke off and I'm the main body, well I use the word body loosely there since I don't have one but you get my point."

Robo me was silent for a second then asks something I was expecting yet dreading, "Prove it", "And how exactly do you want me to do that?" I asked sarcastically, "Do I just start listing off fun facts about us?" I continued "Just say something that only we would know smart ass" robo responded.

I thought for a second trying to think of something only I would know, "That's it!" I exclaimed, "You remember that Thanksgiving a couple years ago when you snuck away and m-". I was interrupted by Robo before I could finish, "Alright, Alright, you might be me"

I felt a victorious smile grow on my metaphorical face, but I was interrupted again when Robo asked "So what now? I mean considering you're still stuck in that void and just a voice in my head I doubt you can help me much"

I paused in thought for a moment before saying "Rude, but true, and for what to do? Best thing to do now is just continue with what you were doing, besides, even though this place looks shity you might find something useful in this trash heap". Robo then let out a sigh and said "You're only saying that because you're not the one who has to dig through it", "Wwwhat, noooo" I replied, with totally genuine sympathy in my voice

And with that Robo me started to rummage through the trash in this small shack. Most of it is what you'd expect to find in a place like this, empty chip bags, plastic bottles, burnt or ripped magazines. But what caught both of our attention was when Robo found a futuristic looking box underneath some plastic bags and rusty needles. It was about the size of a Rubik's cube and didn't have a lid to open but it had a set of buttons on one of its corners. And after an embarrassing amount of time trying to get it to open the crate let out an audible 'beep-boop' and the hiss of a sealed chamber filling with air.

With that a small shelf holding a gray USB stick slid out the front of the box, Robo picked it up and examined it, it was about the size of his thumb. "Wish we could hold onto this but unfortunately I don't have any pockets" Robo said jokingly but right after the stick disappeared out of his hand.

Me and him both stared at his hand in silence for a second, not believing what we just saw. "What'd you do!?" I asked with surprise and confusion dripping from my voice, "I don't know?!" Robo said sounding just as confused as me while getting up off the floor and patting him self down then looking and rummaging through the trash on the ground near him to see where he dropped it. "Fuck I just had it in my hand where'd it go?" He said while holding up his empty hand and looking at it, in an instant the USB stick was back in his hand, another moment of silence came and then went when I broke it to ask in an astonished tone "How!?" Robo replied in an a defeated and even more confused tone "I honestly don't know, your guess is as good as mine at this point man".

I momentarily and metaphorically sat in thought for a second when an idea hit me."Try to make it disappear again" I suggested, Robo looked at the stick in his hand in silence and most likely concentration, it then disappeared again.

"Let's Goooo we got a hammer space baby" I cheered while Robo looked at his hand in astonishment, "Try and pick up the shack" I said, letting out my inner loot goblin. Seeing and agreeing with my course of action Robo immediately reached his hand out and placed it on the wall and stayed like that for a while. After what I counted was a minute I asked "Any luck?", Robo let out a sigh then said "Nah it's too big".

"Oh well it's not the end of the world, besides we have a bunch of other stuff to test on" I said, excited to see the limits of what our new inventory can handle.

After 20 minutes of experimenting, we learned a few new things about our personal storage. One we can't put anything bigger or heavier than Robo inside and two, there's a limit on what we can hold, if I had to guess I'd say it's about a four by four foot cube of empty space we can use

But while messing arou- I mean experimenting we found a vault hatch In the floor, the problem with it being it has a weird looking lock, possibly electric that's stopping us from getting inside, we already tried to put it in our inventory but it seemed to be built into the floor so no dice.

Then Robo made another suggestion, "We could always break it to see what's inside", "Yeah but it's blinking, a lock with a blinking light on it is never a good thing to break" I said. "So you're saying you aren't the least bit curious about what's inside?" Robo said like a devil on my shoulder.

"Fuck it" I stated

With that Robo grabbed the face of the vault hatch and ripped it out breaking the lock in the process with surprising strength I didn't expect to see in this new body. What we found inside were three things,

A clean silver revolver with a rectangular barrel that was glowing light blue on the inside

A small bag full with gold coins that have a lion and scale on opposite sides

And a note with five words on it

'Best of luck new soul!'

Now if that doesn't sound ominous I don't know what does. But before I could think any deeper about who wrote this note we heard the sound of footsteps approaching the shack.

"Shit" both me and robo thought