Johnny-7 tries to impose himself on Saffron in a battle of
will to become dominant in the new emerging personality but when Saffron wakes
up in the circuits of the autofac they are almost entirely themselves with only
fragments of Johnny-7 still lingering. They search the hard drives for useful
information about the autofac’s purpose: The only available blueprint produces
cybernetic prairie dogs. Naida suggests to assemble a cybernetic prairie dog in
order to transfer Saffon onto its positronic brain.
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| Saffron's new body |
A young sessile fern is trained to clean the outward facing
cameras of the factory while the cyberbody is wielded together. It is equipped with
a double brain in a transparent dome, laser eyes and extendible limbs. Before
Saffron personality is transferred they get a glimpse of a room full of dancing
rats and a door reading “Magical Testing Site”.
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| Sessile Ferns (artist impression) |
Saffron is soon welcomed by the other dogs. They broker a mutually
beneficial deal between the prairie dogs and the Great Folk of the Behemoth Shell.
They decide to venture deeper into the caves lead by Aphra the smartest of the prairie dogs. In the ballroom down the stairs they are approached by sophisticated rats dressed in feathers and foil. Azure checks out the carved wooden door that supposedly leads to the magical testing site but gets distracted by a Zombie before it is killed by Naida. Saffron returns to the fern cave and spots a hamster trying to jump Aina who operates the Gatling gun. Others emerge from a crack in the tunnel wall. Firing laser and throwing bone grenades they withstand the first wave of the cannibal hamsters but Katusha shouts from downstairs: “They are coming!”
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| Ominous figures emerging from cracks in the wall |
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