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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5: Recovery

"New Objective: Stand on Guard and Scan The Grounds"

E.L.H. quickly stands back up and scans the area. Using a flash light to assist in spotting dark spaces, it spends a moment to assess the battleground. Nothing moves, but unconvinced E.L.H. waits a little longer. Finally it stops with a full combat ready scan, but keeps it's left weaponry ready and switching its right arm, which is dripping guts and probable blood, to its default form.

"Objective Complete: Starting Up Secondary Objective

New Objective: Study The Creature"

E.L.H. scans the corpse in front of it for clues and research, but with nothing to really compare it to, it records a video of the exploded creature, lifting and rotating it for full measure. E.L.H. then examines in the insides of the wolf. The organs are clearly in pieces along with the brain. The wolf's mandibles still open and closes in a death spasm along with the legs. The claws are massive and are clearly designed for tear apart… anything. Recording enough and at 20x zoom E.L.H. decides that there is enough evidence and then sets off to gather its broken shoulder part and leave the dangerous place. With dusk approaching, E.L.H. checks its battery. The battle took quite a bit, with the powering of the impact ammunition and changing of weaponry, E.L.H.'s battery was at 8%. The world was dangerous and it could not afford to be entirely offline in the case of an emergency during the night, hence why it was looking to build a recharging station.

"New Objective: Find A Safe Zone To Recover And Hide"

E.L.H. sought a hiding place to recover and wait for dawn. Searching for a safe zone, E.L.H. finds a crushed building, but stable enough to hold a space inside. Its entrance is shorter than that of E.L.H. so it crouches down and squeezes into the space. The repairs will have to wait until tomorrow as any lack of power will be dangerous. Night approaches and E.L.H.'s battery is at 11% before all light fades away. E.L.H. looks outside through the cracks, the only light that exists is the moon and the stars next to it. With no light pollution in a world without humanity, the stars look so bright in a world of darkness. E.L.H. zooms in on the stars. It wonders where its creators have gone to. Which star have they fled to and if they really made it there? E.L.H. takes out Anna and examines her and her power. Anna is a white spherical ball with a single lens camera. Her paint is degrading at best. Much of her cracks have dust within them and her lens have much dust on it still. Her inputs are covered by her outer shell that can be removed easily with a slight push inwards. She has no outer weaponry. Anna's power is at 55% but she is still not online. E.L.H. then places the A.I. back into its ripped torso. The torso itself being damaged during the fight was not as deep as to reach Anna. E.L.H. then turns off most of its functions except the main intelligence systems and a single lens camera to provide vision. The flashlight is turned off and the power connecting to Anna is turned off. For now E.L.H. must survive the night.

Night passes without an incident, much to E.L.H.'s relief. Dawn breaks with the battery being at 5%. E.L.H. reactivates all of its systems and scouts the surrounding with caution. Nothing new is encountered and E.L.H. resumes its mission with the HUD announcing

"Resuming Mission Objective: Awaken Anna and Build A Recharging Site"

Critical Objective Assigned: Repair Parts"

E.L.H. moves to a high ground, a ruined building that still had an upper floor, with a clear vantage point to scout from and kneels down. It examines the damage to the shoulder and chest. The shoulder armor is ripped clean off with bite marks from the bite. It has teeth marks from 4 directions. The inner part is completely fine, but exposed. Inside are wires and the "muscles" of the arm. The "muscles" are an advanced form of mechanical hydraulics and look much like human muscles.

"Starting Basic Repair Procedures"

The HUD announcing E.L.H.'s current action, E.L.H. places the missing metal shoulder armor back into place and starts melding it back into place with its right hand tools. The tools extend out with wires and move independently, melding the armor back on. Finishing the objective, E.L.H. examines its shoulder only to see that it's not perfectly fit on. It will have to do for now, but it is clearly a weak point. The next piece to fix is the torso. The torso has five slashes across it, pulling apart the metal to the side. Only the outer piece was ripped apart and unlike the shoulder, E.L.H. cleanly repaired the torso by bending the metal back into place and melding, except at the pointed edge of the hull.

"Repairs Finished.

Resume Objectives: Awaken Anna And Building A Recharging Station".