UKGIJINKA LORE

V1 was made from the body of an anonymous woman, who had donated herself to this experiment. She was held in a smaller facility, near where the chassis of V1 was being finalized, and so was the outfit that would sit atop the fleshy body it would soon receive. The woman had been declared dead the moment after she signed the agreement to become V1.

She was well taken care of, or as good as it can get in this world. She was made to exercise often so that the machine that she would become a part of would look strong to human onlookers.

When the day finally came, the woman was taken into where the synthetic half of V1 was. Through a long, complex, and grueling process, the engineers and medical staff managed to get her onto the machine body, while still managing to keep her alive. Unfortunately, the memories and personality of the woman was wiped when the machine took hold of her. They were to be replaced with the machine's own memory and personality, whenever those would come through.

The machine looked beautifully human due to the sacrifice, but underneath the flesh was muscle combined with metal. Almost every human part was aided by machinery. It was a part of them now. The machine wasn't activated just yet, though they kept it on a sort of life support system that automatically refueled it with blood, so that the organic material didn't go to waste. Essentially, it was in a coma.

A few details had to be corrected before it could be powered on, but the day it was powered on was a grand ceremony. Only 2 personel stood in the room with the machine, and the rest of the staff watched on through a camera that was livestreaming from inside the machine's little chamber.

The boot up process was initiated, the onlookers waiting with baited breath as the lights adorning the machine brightened up. Since this was its first time booting up, it had to calibrate its systems. This process took a few minutes, with the machine opening its eyes to calibrate vision, and the staff stationed with it playing audio for it to verify that the audio systems were functioning.

Once calibration was complete, the machine began to look around, curious about her surroundings. One person stood infront of her, and the other person stood at the computer terminals and monitors that were being used to monitor her, one of them being set up to obtain her visual data, and another being set up so that V1 could display messages on it.

Below is the transcription of the conversation that V1 and the staff had.
STAFF 1: Good morning, machine. Would you be able to send a quick test message to that device there for me?
[STAFF 1 pointed toward the CRT monitor that was set up to receive messages from V1.]
V1: THE QUICK BROWN DOG JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG 9876543210 TIMES.
STAFF 2: She sent the quick brown dog.
STAFF 1: Thank you. Could you tell us your name, then?
[There is a brief pause as V1 thinks.]
V1: MY NAME IS V1.
STAFF 2: Her name's V1.
STAFF 1: That's correct, your name is V1. Do you know where you are?
V1: I AM CURRENTLY IN ███ ████████ █████
[T/N: Location must be redacted for safety reasons. I apologize, V1.]
STAFF 2: Currently in ███ ████████ █████.
STAFF 1: Correct. Now, V1, can you take a few steps toward me?
[STAFF 1 had stepped back from V1, now up against the opposite wall. V1 followed his command.]
STAFF 1: Good job, now go backward.
[V1 followed the command.]
STAFF 1: Brilliant. More movement tests will be conducted later, as we're sure you're a little confused on your situation. We are here to answer any questions you may have.
V1: AM I ALLOWED TO SIT DOWN?
STAFF 2: You can do whatever you'd like, V1.
[V1 would sit down on the floor as STAFF 1 moved closer to her.]
V1: CAN I SEE MY OWN REFLECTION?
STAFF 2: She's asking to see herself in a mirror.
STAFF 1: Soon, they're still setting up the testing rooms for you.
V1: WHAT IS MY PURPOSE? I HAVE SOME KNOWLEDGE ON IT BUT I WOULD LIKE A FURTHER EXPLANATION IF POSSIBLE.
STAFF 2: She's asking for a further explanation on her purpose.
[STAFF 1 squats down to get on V1's level properly.]
STAFF 1: You are going to be used in war. We made you to fight a different kind of machine, called an "Earthmover." They are taller than anything you have ever seen, but we hope that you will be able to help us take them down. They destroy cities within seconds with their might, which is quite scary, but we trust that you will not have any fear when facing them.
[V1 does not send any messages for a while.]
V1: SO I ASSUME THERE WILL BE MORE OF ME?
STAFF 2: She's asking if there's gonna be more V1 models.
STAFF 1: Ideally, yes. If we can secure some sales, there'll be more machines like you. We do have a different model in the prototyping phase, that's just like you, but without all the human parts.
[V1 begins to mouth the words that she is sending over to the monitor. A quite, somewhat raspy voice rings through, coming from the vocal chords still inside the machine.]
V1: INTERESTING.
V1: IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN EAT?
STAFF 2: She says that's interesting, and if there's anything she can eat.
STAFF 1: Unfortunately there isn't really much to eat anymore. Sorry.
V1: CAN I AT LEAST DO SOMETHING FUN?
STAFF 2: I think we can transport her to one of the testing rooms now. [STAFF 1] can you remove the wires and tubing and all of that?
STAFF 1: Absolutely.
[STAFF 1 carefully frees V1 of the supports, helping her up.]
STAFF 1: You won't be able to communicate for a short while, maybe 10 or 15 minutes at most, but I'm sure you'll be fine. Follow [STAFF 2].
[END TRANSCRIPT]

Skipping forward a few years, V1 is activated every so often to continue testing, now for V2, who she gets to briefly see the internals of. The process that happened with V1 is repeated for V2, though of course with a different person and slightly better procedures.

V1 is left to sit in her original chamber, though V2 is free to roam the premises. V2 often walks into V1's chamber and every so often will power her up for a quick chat, though as blood sources deplete he does this less and less, getting used to talking to her while she 'sleeps.'

Though, before he leaves her for good, he powers her up again to say goodbye. He asks if he can kiss her, and she says yes. So, just before V2 shuts V1 off for the last time, or so he thought, he kisses her goodbye, directly on the lips. There is a small amount of awkwardness, as neither had ever kissed anything before.

V1 is then powered down again, left in a position that makes it look as if she was just sleeping. Her last words were "I LOVE YOU, GOOD NIGHT." further sealing V2's denial of death. She's just sleeping.

It wouldn't be long until she was jolted to life again, this time under weird circumstances. Nobody was there to awaken her, and yet here she was, awake, and heading down into Hell. Here starts her adventure below the Earth's surface, with her partially forgetting the memories she has in order to focus on the thousands of murders she was destined to commit that night.

Soon she'd meet with V2 again, but she couldn't exactly recall who he was. She knew he was familiar, however. V2 did partially recall V1, but shoved his old memories aside since V1 was much different now, her presence felt much colder.

When V1 came back around to properly kill V2, he'd started remembering more things about his time with V1. He still didn't let these memories affect him, until he was halfway down the pyramid, now knocking on death's door as V1 was relentless in her attempts to kill him.

V2 begins to panic as he realizes he is guaranteed to die. Before he does, he looks back at V1, and fills in the details of a fuzzy memory. There was a girl he loved what felt like a whole lifetime ago. He remembered kissing her before letting her finally die. Though he remembered it all wrong, that girl did not die, that girl was about to kill him, and she looks as if she does not care at all.

In his last moments, V2 processes the death before him, and the circumstances of it. He crashes into the ground, the last thing he sees is V1 landing perfectly on her feet, unlike V2 who was about to hit the ground in such a way that he would leave only blood and scrap behind.

V1 watches on as another person dies, stepping forwards to claim her prize, that being a new arm. She looks off to the side, seeing V2's head and part of his upper body still intact, though softly burning in the golden sand. V1 suddenly begins crying, which she is confused by. She wipes away her tears and continues onward, shoving her grief away.