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Of Metal and Flesh

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The God gazed across the sunless cell, a great cave of metal studded with small glass orbs.
"Mechannus" he growled in a deep, gravelly voice, "I have come for what is mine."
The weightless words echoed across the cell, filling the room with sound.
"Atrox" came a voice just a bit too artificial, holding the x just a bit too long, as the orbs around the cavern washed the room in a hostile crimson. "Whaaaaat can I d-d-do for youuuu?"
"All this time, and you still haven't even managed to make a working voice box, anyway, you know what i'm here for. The Qulvo, where is it" said Atrox moving to loom over the lesser deity.
For a moment, they met, eye to eye, one a giant being of carapace like skin around his body, two horns protruding from each shoulder and two sleeked back horns on his head. And the other, a being of metal and current, being nothing more than an upper torso connected into the wall with a series of cables, with two hands channelling a constant stream of electricity between each other, and a large helmet of a metal not quite of this world.
"Youuuu are h-here to killlll meeeeee, no? You cannot." buzzed Mechannus, not in a challenging way, more as if he had stated a common fact.
Atrox stared at Mechannus, taken aback before breaking in rumbled laughter, "Oh? And why would that be, I could crush you where you stand"
"Because you nee-d-d me"
Atrox narrowed his three eyes, "I am in near total control of this world and the planes around it, I have risen the Thrast from the ashes and crushed any opposition in my way. I am soon to become God King of this whole system, and you, Mechannus self proclaimed God of machines cowering down in this sunless cell, you DARE tell me that I need YOUR help."
"Yessss..." "Make no mistake, i-it is not now you need me, no, soon it will be your time to die, my friend, I know your stubbornness I know that you will battle regardless of what I say, I kno-" 
"You know NOTHING of who or what I am, where I came from, what I can do" Atrox roared.
"... How are your sistersssss?" rasped Mechannus, raising his chassis to meet Atrox.
"H-how do you know about that" whispered the angered God in a dangerous tone.
"We all have-e our secretsss" the construct whispered back. "You will need me, no, that is not the matter, the matter is whether you accept it or not."
Atrox: The God King moves his face closer to the Mechanoid "Never" and without waiting for a response, turns his back on the construct to leave the room.
"O-o-o-h but y-you willlll, Oh you willlllllllll".

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