Psi sits in the middle backseat of a kinda nice car, Vito and his father, Klien, are in the front. It's been a few months since Psi was reactivated, and he's slowly started getting used to this life. He's been hanging out with T a lot at school, every time he's with her or thinks about her, he feels warm inside.

  She's a rather expressive drone and her owner, Chloe,is rather... expressive, as well. T has taught Psi a lot of human things, a lot... some of it is very weird. But now many things make sense now, Psi gets less and less confused about human behavior. But he's still confused about how Vito is unable to get a human female to like him...

  Vito is a strange human... Well, all humans are strange to Psi. And today he's probably gonna meet another weird one named, Tessa Eliot. Her father, James, is friends with Klien, and today they were invited for dinner.

  Apparently this, Tessa, also has several drones she's repaired, well a dozen actually. But only five drones actually work.

  The drone gnces outside at the passing trees, then gnces at his reflection in the window. His bnk red eyes staring back right at him. He then gnces towards the front of the car, staring at Klien for a few seconds. Then he gnces over at Vito, who's on his phone.

  Vito then gnces out the front of the car, as a rge manor is seen in the distance. He tilts his head slightly, a strange feeling washes over him, he suddenly shivers. As if something was staring right at his programming, right down to his 1's and 0's.

  He's snapped out of his stupor as the car comes to a stop. Vito smiles as he spots a young girl run out of the manor, a set of three Drones following her. Vito climbs out of the car and shouts.

  "Tessa!"

  "Vito!" A girl runs over and stops in front of him.

  The two do a slight bow to each other, before ughing. Psi looks at the three Drones behind Tessa, who are wearing outfits and silver wigs.

  "N, V, J!" Vito greets. "It's been a while!"

  "Hiya pal!" N waves with a big smile.

  V shuffles in nervousness. "Uh, hi Vito."

  "Hello." J says in a pin tone.

  Tessa gnces at Psi and her smile grows, as she zooms over to him, grabbing his hand. "Hello, you must be Psi!"

  Psi blinks a few times as he stares at the girl. "Hello."

  "You're a Y unit right?"

  Psi nods. "Yes, I am Unit Y-1101X1XX0."

  "OH!" Tessa shouts. "I have a Y unit too!" Tessa turns back to the open doors of the manor. "Y, come on, stop being anti-social!"

  Baxterbro

  Suddenly a slightly taller Y unit, with yellow markings and yellow eyes walks out. It's our Y. Psi's eyes glitch as a warning symbol appears over his right eye.

  Prior Hazard Detected

  Psi takes a step back as he starts to shake as his visor glitches a few times. A memory starts to py.

  --

  Psi shoots around as Y, In his Absolute Solution form, jumps around. He bites a Y unit in the back of the head, eating it as he flies around Psi's bullets. Psi watches as Y sms a another Unit into the ground, and sms his foot through it's visor.

  Then Y lunges at Psi and stabs him through the gut. Psi's visor glitches as oil spews from his mouth, then the next thing he know's is he's thrown across the compound and sms into a wall. He slides down it as warnings and errors fsh through his visor, as in the background Y continues his sughter of his other brothers.

  Then his visor glitches as everything goes dark.

  ---

  Y stands in front of Psi, and smirks, Psi just stares up at him, his eyes slightly shaking. A feeling of fear sparks through Psi, even going as deep as his programming. This thing in front of him, is not a drone, but a monster wearing it's metal flesh.

  "Psi, meet Y!" Tessa cheerfully greets.

  "Hello, I'm Unit Y-10101X10X." Y greets with a smile.

  "I-I'm Unit Unit Y-1101X1XX0..." Psi greets.

  "Yeah, you two are friends!" Tessa hugs the two drones.

  Y smirks down at Psi as the other Drones stares at him in worry. James exits the manor and shouts Klien's name. Klien ughs as the two walk over to each other. Tessa backs away from the two drones and goes back to talking to Vito.

  Psi and Y stare at each other, Y's right eye glitches as the Absolute Solution symbol appears, causing Psi's visor to glitch. But suddenly Y's visor glitches as he grits his teeth in pain, while Psi's visor glitches as a gear symbol appears over his right eye. Psi also grits his teeth in pain, the two drones have digital sweat fall down their visors as they gre at each other.

  In Y's vision he sees.

  Intrusion Detected: Attempted HackingSolution Found.

  In Psi's Vision he sees.

  Intrusion Detected: B?????????????????e????????????????????????c???????????????o???????????m??????????????????e????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????A?????????????????????????s?????????s?????????????????i????????????????????????????m???????????????i???????????????????????l????????????????????a??????????t?????e?????????????????????????????d?????????????

  Attempting Fix.

  "Hey, you two, let's go!" Tessa's voice calls out to the two.

  The two drones look over to her, and notice everyone's already inside. The two gre at each other again, before following after her. They walk inside and Psi looks around, a few beads of digital sweat falls down his visor.

  He looks to the side and sees that looks like several camera's and hooks looking from around a corner. Y suddenly walks right in front of him and then he sees a small Drone peaking around the corner, her yellow eyes staring deeply into him.

  She gives him a smile before disappearing. To Psi, he feels like he's stepped into the incinerator. This pce is nothing but death, monsters wearing the skin of drones. He needs to leave, but he can't leave his master behind.

  Psi looks over to Vito and Tessa, seeing them smile. Vito doesn't smile too much... Psi guesses he can withstand this torture a little.

  An hour ter Psi is talking to V, J and N in the corner of a dining room, as other drones start to set it up. Y is off to the side, supervising everyone. Psi stares at the other Drone, his red eyes bearing at Y. Until N catches his attention.

  "What is school like?!" N shakes with excitement. "Do they really have tons of humans and drones there?!"

  Psi raises an eyebrow. "Uhh... Yeah."

  "So cool!" N ughs, until J hits him in the back of the head.

  "You're too loud!" J gres as N shivers under it.

  V nervously speaks up. "Uh, J, can you please not hit him. We have guests, remember."

  "Ugghhh!" J groans.

  V then turns to Psi. "What's the city like?"

  Psi thinks for a second before speaking. "Lots of people. Lots of lights... and really loud during the day. And empty at night."

  "Sounds fascinating." V says enchanted.

  "Have you been to Headquarters yet?" J asks as she crosses her arms.

  Psi shakes his head. "No, but I hear when you visit, they give you pens."

  J's eyes light up slightly. "Do you think I could get mine branded?"

  Psi just shrugs, and he gnces back over to Y, who stares at the red eye drone a few seconds, before turning to a passing drone who almost drops a bunch of ptes. Psi then looks back at the others.

  "What's with Y?"

  The other three tilt their heads in confusion.

  "Uh, well, he's kinda our leader." J states.

  "He's nice and strong." V states.

  "OH! He likes dogs too! And hates the sun! Likes to drink the oil in the garage." N pats the tip of his chin. "And he's cool too! Don't forget that!"

  J then crosses his arms. "But he's hanging out with Cyn, a lot tely."

  Psi raises an eyebrow. "Who's Cyn?"

  "A C Unit, she's a little creepy honestly. And always gets into trouble."

  Psi hums in thought.

  A couple more hours pass and the dinner is going, but Psi is walking around the Manor. Looking at all the paintings on the wall, until he rounds a corner and sees Y standing a little ways from him. Staring at him, menacingly.

  "What are you?" Psi asks as he stares at Y.

  Y smiles as yellow static travels around him. "I am a helper to the Absolute Solver, a pill crated by her to exterminate the parasite of the universe."

  Psi gres at him. "You're a monster."

  Y chuckles as a rge X appears on his visor as he enters hunt-mode, and cws and hook-like appendages appear from his back. He limps forward as yellow drool falls from his mouth.

  "I'm not the monsters, it's those beasts with soft and squishy flesh called 'Humans'." Y steps towards Y, the lights around him flickering. Psi's eyes hollow as he steps back. "They take and destroy without thinking, and trust us Drones as me trash!"

  One of Y's hooks stab into the floor, making a rge gash as he grows angry.

  "I, nor my creator, Cyn, will let them, continue this." Y giggles as his head spins 360 degrees before tilting sideways. "But that's enough for now, you know what they say. 'Better to assimite, then to expin!'"

  Y slowly returns to normal, before smiling towards Psi, who's slightly shaking.

  "You will one day understand, and rid of that thing you call 'Master.' Then you will join us on our conquest."

  "I will never join you." Psi grits his teeth as his eyes return to normal.

  "Hehehe, everyone will, or they will perish." Y turns around and starts walking away. "Everyone will join, weather they like it or not. And that includes you." Y chuckles as he suddenly disappears as the lights fsh.

  Psi lets out a heavy breath as he nearly falls over. He looks behind him to see Cyn, as she stares at him from around a corner. She gives him a small wave, before suddenly disappearing. Psi quickly heads down the hall and back towards the dining room.

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  Moonlight shines into the car as Psi sits in the front seat, with Vito sleeping in the back. They're on their way back home from the dinner party. Klien gnces over at Psi, before speaking.

  "Did you have fun, Psi?"

  Psi thinks about the meeting of the monster, and just stares at Vito's father. Making him sweat drop.

  "Still not much of a talker..." Klien sighs. "But you know, thank you for being there for Vito."

  Psi's red eyes reflect off the passenger window as he stares out of it. "Sure..." He looks at Klien. "Vito is important to me."

  Klien smiles at Psi, before looking back at the road. "That means a lot to me."

  Psi then looks out the front window. Thinking about how to keep Vito away from Y and that Cyn... Those Monsters in Metal Skin.

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  04-11-2025

  1780 words