08-01_2: 2B's battle with Adam
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dressedtothe[2B rides the elevator down into the Copied City.]
2B: What is this?
Pod 042: Analysis: This area is composed of crystallized silicon and carbon. Further details unknown.
2B: Who built it?
Pod 042: Unknown.
[As she traverses through the Copied City, 2B finds several android corpses literring the ground.]
2B: What's with the corpses?
Pod 042: It is unlikely the YoRHa units came this far on their own. Hypothesis: The enemy must have placed them here deliberately.
[2B enters an area that looks like a half constructed church and a large courtyard. Tiny cubes roll towards the church. As 2B approaches, the cubes begin to roll and merge together. Larger cubes block her exit. From the mass of cubes emerges Adam, who sweeps into a bow.]
Adam: Welcome... to my beloved city. I-or we machine lifeforms, I suppose- have a keen interest in humanity. Love. Family. Religion. War. The more human records I unearth, the more charmed I am by their complexity. This city is one of many areas I created out of a desire to understand—to know—humans. It’s grand, don’t you think? Almost... spiritual. And yet it’s currently nothing more than an android graveyard!
[2B and Adam begin to fight.]
Adam: I seek to learn and adopt all facets of humanity! Some desired love! Others family! Only then did I realize the truth... The core of humanity... is conflict. They fight. Steal. Kill. THIS is humanity in its purest form!
2B: You know nothing about humanity!
Adam: Hehehe... Have I offended you, little android? Did I speak ill of your beloved humans? The truth can be so painful. I strive to attain nothing less than the essence of humanity itself. We machines exist in a connected network. We are immortal. Invincible. And yet, within all those infinite bits of data, there exists not even the merest flicker of being. Of life. Death—even the concept of death—has no meaning to us. And yet, within all these infinite bits of data, there exists not even the merest flicker of being. Of life.
[Adam distances himself from 2B, the cubes floating with him.]
Adam: Thus, I decided... that I shall risk my life in battle.
[The cubes all drop.]
Adam: I have severed my connection to the network. Now... let us embrace death!
[Adam and 2B continue to fight. As the fight drags on...]
2B: I don't have time for you... I need... to find 9S!
Adam: Ah, 9S... Hehehe... HAHAHAHA!
[Adam backs away.]
Adam: Oh, I do enjoy this...
[Adam raises his arms and floats upwards. The church's walls fall away... revealing 9S crucified with blunt metal rods impaling his hands, legs and side.]
2B: 9S!
[Adam floats up next to 9S, grasping 9S' face with his hands. 9S is clearly in pain.]
Adam: I prepared this just for you. I mean, after all... We all need something to fight for, don't we?
[2B's rage is palpable.]
2B: You son of a... I'll kill you!
Adam: YEEEEEES! That’s it! That’s the feeling! PURE HATE! AHAHAHAHAHAAA!
[Adam leaps down to the ground.]
Adam: Come, 2B!!!!
[2B and Adam continue fighting. Finally, 2B stabs Adam through the gut.]
Adam: Aaaargh!
[2B drives her sword deeper into him.]
Adam: Is this... death...?
[2B rips her sword through Adam's side. Unsurprisingly, he coppses to the ground in a pool of his own blood.]
Adam: So dark... So cold...
[Adam dies. With that obstacle out of the way, 2B turns to where 9S has fallen to the ground.]
2B: 9S!
[Approaching 9S, 2B knees and gently holds him.]
2B: 9S...
9S: 2B...
[9S' mouth curls into a small smile.]
2B: Come on. Let’s go home.
[9S smiles and nods, unable to speak. 2B quietly smiles as she lifts him from the ground and carries him out of the Copied City.]
2B: What is this?
Pod 042: Analysis: This area is composed of crystallized silicon and carbon. Further details unknown.
2B: Who built it?
Pod 042: Unknown.
[As she traverses through the Copied City, 2B finds several android corpses literring the ground.]
2B: What's with the corpses?
Pod 042: It is unlikely the YoRHa units came this far on their own. Hypothesis: The enemy must have placed them here deliberately.
[2B enters an area that looks like a half constructed church and a large courtyard. Tiny cubes roll towards the church. As 2B approaches, the cubes begin to roll and merge together. Larger cubes block her exit. From the mass of cubes emerges Adam, who sweeps into a bow.]
Adam: Welcome... to my beloved city. I-or we machine lifeforms, I suppose- have a keen interest in humanity. Love. Family. Religion. War. The more human records I unearth, the more charmed I am by their complexity. This city is one of many areas I created out of a desire to understand—to know—humans. It’s grand, don’t you think? Almost... spiritual. And yet it’s currently nothing more than an android graveyard!
[2B and Adam begin to fight.]
Adam: I seek to learn and adopt all facets of humanity! Some desired love! Others family! Only then did I realize the truth... The core of humanity... is conflict. They fight. Steal. Kill. THIS is humanity in its purest form!
2B: You know nothing about humanity!
Adam: Hehehe... Have I offended you, little android? Did I speak ill of your beloved humans? The truth can be so painful. I strive to attain nothing less than the essence of humanity itself. We machines exist in a connected network. We are immortal. Invincible. And yet, within all those infinite bits of data, there exists not even the merest flicker of being. Of life. Death—even the concept of death—has no meaning to us. And yet, within all these infinite bits of data, there exists not even the merest flicker of being. Of life.
[Adam distances himself from 2B, the cubes floating with him.]
Adam: Thus, I decided... that I shall risk my life in battle.
[The cubes all drop.]
Adam: I have severed my connection to the network. Now... let us embrace death!
[Adam and 2B continue to fight. As the fight drags on...]
2B: I don't have time for you... I need... to find 9S!
Adam: Ah, 9S... Hehehe... HAHAHAHA!
[Adam backs away.]
Adam: Oh, I do enjoy this...
[Adam raises his arms and floats upwards. The church's walls fall away... revealing 9S crucified with blunt metal rods impaling his hands, legs and side.]
2B: 9S!
[Adam floats up next to 9S, grasping 9S' face with his hands. 9S is clearly in pain.]
Adam: I prepared this just for you. I mean, after all... We all need something to fight for, don't we?
[2B's rage is palpable.]
2B: You son of a... I'll kill you!
Adam: YEEEEEES! That’s it! That’s the feeling! PURE HATE! AHAHAHAHAHAAA!
[Adam leaps down to the ground.]
Adam: Come, 2B!!!!
[2B and Adam continue fighting. Finally, 2B stabs Adam through the gut.]
Adam: Aaaargh!
[2B drives her sword deeper into him.]
Adam: Is this... death...?
[2B rips her sword through Adam's side. Unsurprisingly, he coppses to the ground in a pool of his own blood.]
Adam: So dark... So cold...
[Adam dies. With that obstacle out of the way, 2B turns to where 9S has fallen to the ground.]
2B: 9S!
[If 2B walks away.]
9S waited for several decades for 2B to return. ...But she was never seen again.
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[Approaching 9S, 2B knees and gently holds him.]
2B: 9S...
9S: 2B...
[9S' mouth curls into a small smile.]
2B: Come on. Let’s go home.
[9S smiles and nods, unable to speak. 2B quietly smiles as she lifts him from the ground and carries him out of the Copied City.]
