Women vs Machine

Humans were kinda weird sometimes. Yeah, the idea of creating your own kind of artificial life was cool and all, but what happens if there wasn't any kind of switch to turn them off? This. this is what happens when you don't have that switch or something. Robots had begun to run rampant in the streets and the world was doomed again, for like the seventh time this year. Upon hearing of the news, the two young Exceeds had spotted not only a chance to make a name for themselves but also to go and see what exactly robots look like from up close. Maybe they were a batch of something so top secret and advanced the council didn't have any knowledge about them? They were so excited, their little hats were about to fall off of their heads! The two raced over towards the meeting area with the additional person who was said to be coming along to assist them in their fight.

"Do ya see them yet, Grappa?" "Nope...Nothing yet."

The two Exceed flew past the canopy of emerald trees, their eyes gazing at the ground while scanning around the area around them on their way/ Their plan, or at least Jellisha's, was to meet with them midway and go over a plan of sorts. That way when they arrived at the town, they could jump straight into the action. As the miles wore on them and the sun was turning in the sky, that plan seemed to be slowly becoming more of a pipe dream than anything else. She pouted while tugging her sibling along. Grappa, in the meantime, had been keeping busy pointing out all the people below and even trying to wave to some of a few while they rocketed across the sky, oblivious to their objective. Sometimes Jellisha wondered how they were even related. The next few hours had been fairly silent until Grappa had spoken up about somebody below.

"Ooooh! Is that them!" Jellisha grabbed the notice which gave them details on their partners for such a mission. She did a quick scan and then looked beneath them. "They look like it. Perfect match from me. Ready to head down?"

Grappa nodded and was the first of the two to spiral down behind their vehicle. Jellisha zoomed closer and joined her sister as their forms would change right before they hit the ground. Before the impact, two youthful legs would gently stop right before the ground and make their way to the woman resting by her bike. With attention gained on them and not much time to spare, the two offered the woman the customary Rune Knight salute.

"Well met. Rune Knight Cadet Jellisha." "Rune Knight Cadet Grappa~ Pleasure to meet you!~"

"Hm?" Immediately Grappa's eyes were drawn towards the doll which rested by the woman. The girl let out and audible gasp and hurried over. "Ohmigod, you're so cool!" She fawned over the mechanical doll who was somehow alive. Since the girls were in the engineering department of the Rune Knights, it was no wonder that both of them had that innate curiosity for the world. "How do you work? Is it a type of magic? Are you a supercharged robot? Do you talk or are these just precorded lines?" The girl's assault of questions were launched at the doll as Jellisha would watch in embarrassment and cover her face with her palm.

"Sorry about her. She's just excited to see something she hasn't cracked open before." Jellisha caught wind of the bike, her own eyes lit with interest. "I like your ride. Where'd you get it, and how much did it cost?" Regardless of the answer, she listened while Grappa would soon snap out of her daze and smile at metal maiden. "Sorry, it's just...I've never seen a thing like you before. I wanna be the best engineer ever when I'm older, so I wanna know how I can make a million cool things like you!~"

They hoped that their entrance was at least one that would be memorable. Serilda and Mythal always gained such interest and honor the moment they stepped foot on any soil. It was a level of power that the two wished to attain one day in their fairly short to this point lives. thankfully they hadn't been batted, shooed or swayed away from the two, so that mean progress was in the process of being made here. Luna and Amelie appeared to find them a welcome sight on the battlefield despite their youth appearances. But Mythal had always given them a bit of advice. "It ain't whatcha look like, but what ya can make go boom!" Then he laughed a bit in a way that even Jellisha couldn't replicate despite being almost identical personality wise. A good piece of advice but they had always felt fairly miffed when people kept leaving them out of things because of how fresh out of the egg they were. It's not like they were babies! Well, kinda.

Anyway, Amelie would kick things off by going into detailed explanation about herself. Every piece of information offered was graciously absorbed by both twins while they would be in absolute awe at home magnificent she was. Grappa studied every bit of her exterior piece by piece. Her sibling had far more self-control than she ever could even wish of having. Two polarized peas in a pod they were. Her systems were amazing and it was only made even more intriguing now that the twins had something to base their reason off of being in the engineering branch of the Knights. "Wow! They guys back home aren't gunna believe this!" Grappa exclaimed happily. And then the heard a word that they had never heard before.

"Lacrima?" They both asked in unison, wearing a most perplexed expression on their faces.

"What's a lacrima?" Jellisha asked, leaning on the chariot's exterior a bit. Neither of them had really ever heard or experienced some word like that. If it was what was powering Amelie, then it would have to be fairly powerful. Sure the big words confused them to the point of failing to see any kind of logic or understanding behind them whatsoever, but she was cool and that's all that mattered. She did say how that there wouldn't be anybody who could create somebody like herself, which Jellisha had to hold herself back from talking about. If some random guy could just make a hundred of these bucket of bolts in the town across from them, who was to say another person couldn't just like a thousand Amelies? It was only a bit until something like that happened anyway. Again, humans. Loved to mess around with the natural order of things and then get burned by the very thing they made.

The woman put an end to their discussion with an introduction of her very own. The girls' eyes looked ready to burst from their head when she introduced herself as a former guild master. "Whoa! You ran your own magic guild? That's awesome!" Jellisha's smiled was just so much like Grappa's at that moment. She was in total ecstasy upon being in the presence of somebody so important. Her sister shared the sentiment, eye's full of a thousand questions only being held back the manners she had forced upon her. The price of that vehicle of Luna's made the crimson eyed girl's mouth drop at the sheer price. "Fifteen thousand jewels?!" she repeated. "We barely have like 3,000 saved up from all the jobs we did. How do people earn that much so fast? Do they just make jewel trees or something?"

Then came her question to the two. And it was the one Jellisha had always despised. It always led to the same message being said. "We're close to...um." Silence rang through the air as Grappa thought to herself. "Well, it's been a few months since Seri and Mythal hatched us. So four months!" Grappa answered Luna's question. Jellisha was right along to continue her explanation. "They say that the previous Rune Knights found our egg and then put in storage for years and years. They found it during an inspection and touched it. We felt them touch our egg and...sorta hatched then. They've been or guardians since."

Both twins would puff their cheeks out at the exclamation of their age. "Jeez, it's not like we're babies or something." Jellisha uttered, her hands crossed over her youthful chest in frustration.To the credit of Luna, it was an honest and natural reaction to such a young and fresh pair of feet on their way into the world. They had always been pretty confused as to why exactly people seemed so put off about that. Exceed were totally different than just normal humans! Sure, most were out of the egg much older and there was probably some reason why not only they came in the same egg, but as twins. Not unless they were an enigma to even the most scholarly minds of this age. Grappa pouted a little as well, the comment touching a nerve. But in usual Grappa fashion, she bounced back and did her best to motivate their teammates for this assignment. "We can totally pull our weight though. So don't worry about us. Seri and Mythal wouldn't throw us in an assignment that we couldn't handle." She had hoped the words would be enough alone to allow them access into going along with the rest of the mission. There would be tons and tons of robots and maybe if they were lucky, it would be a super cool chance to learn more about machines. They were junior engineers in the division, after all.

Luna appeared sated by her answer and the two were given the green light to go ahead and prepare for the roll out. The twins both would shoot each other a thankful look and then get all psyched up to go and save the day again. "This is gunna be so cool! Do you think we can bring home a robot for ourselves? I wanna see what makes 'em work if we can't crack open Amelie." "I bet we could. They don't seem too heavy so it should be just as heavy as the lieutenant." the man in question being one of the few people who helped both girls train when not busy babysitting them to make sure they didn't get themselves into trouble again. they spoke with such vigor and energy of the mission it was almost as if this was just another kind of exercise back home and not some kind of dangerous mission where they could be trampled on by robots four times their Exceed sizes. They would have continued to be to until Luna would drop the bombshell on their plans to take a souvenir home with them.

"Nofair..." Both twins said in unison. Each would give the former guildmaster and companion with an angry face. Grappa even puffed her cheeks out larger than normal. It continued on for a few minutes but eventually they sullenly moved about. Maybe when she wasn't looking...

The twins dispelled their human forms, reverting back to their Exceed appearance. It wasn't really much of anything left to imagination. Both girls had a light plum purple fur colors, with their eyes revealing which twin was which a little easier. They both came dressed in the Rune Knight colors, wearing a small custom made uniform that fit the both of them. Their age was much easier to see in this form as well, looking like kittens to the normal Exceed. Just a hug head on a much smaller body. They were probably just about the middle of the infant age if one could relate them with actual cats. Though the two definitely wouldn't be happy about that.

When it came time for everybody to discuss their magic and such, the two listened carefully. Each hovered in front of the two while taking in their selection of magics. Of course, Luna's knowledge far outweighed their own, as both would stare up in amazement and giddiness. They couldn't wait until she could display how powerful she was in here! Then Amelia told the two about what she could do, elaborating on what was said before. When it came time for them to speak, they couldn't help but feel a bit lacking compared to these two."We're still learning a few things. The both of us have Aero and wind magic and that's about it. So if you need a lift, let us know and we'll rush over." Grappa would nod in agreement before setting their sights on the goal ahead.

"So do we have a game plan or are we just gunna go wild until the last robot falls down?" Jellisha asked. "I'm game for whatever." Her sibling kept busy tidying her uniform and licking some of her fur that was fluffing up just above her left ear.

Yeah the explanation for leaving the robots as they were was solid, but it wasn't like the twins were just easily going to admit that. They continued to pout at Luceam and her robotic companion until Jellisha would break the silence with a childish, "Whatever..." Grappa appeared a little more apologetic towards Luna's reasoning than her sister though.

After that disagreement, the former guild master sent for a bird to give them a view overheard of the robotic army. The twins were a bit disappointed with their chance to shine outdone but a small bird they could probably catch but Jellisha chalked it up to the size difference between them. Robots wouldn't think much of a bird flying above them as much as a cat. The reconnaissance was made and the report back before the twins started up again.

"AND you can talk to animals? Gosh, you're super cool! Oh, I wanna be a nature fairy just like you when I grow up!"
"Can you talk to trees too? Or other things?"
"Do birds speak like humans or is there a bird language?"

Question after question assaulted the woman until either her or Amelie would put a stop to it. If they did, she'd eventually settle for just winding herself down until the two settled down enough to just listen to the report. During which, Grappa looked the most completely lost by everything. She raised her paw into the air to ask her question. "Um, so what's that mean? Can we still do this job?" Jellisha thought everything over while her sibling was still catching up, rubbing her paw against her temple. "So if they can all adapt to all of us like you said, we're going to lose the long battle. We gotta destroy them all in one go or a short battle." Her crimson eyes looked over to her sister in case that stumped her but she appeared to have gotten the message. Amelie would be the muscle behind this, with the rest of them working as her guards as she got powered up. Pretty simply stuff. This would be a pretty useful tactics lessons, or at least that's probably would Seri would have told them if she were here.

"Gotcha!~ So we attack to annoy and push away. I think that's super easy!" The young Exceed said with excitement. The plan began shortly afterwards, with the twins speeding along with the other two to get things fully started. As Amelie set up, the robots in question would all rise to attention while the two Exceed would get into position by one another's side. "Heads up! A fight's coming!" The sound of metal clanging against the ground sounded off while the twins would begin using their magic to push people away. The two began to swirl around one another as wind slowly began to focus around each one of them. "Let's get 'em!" "Gotta protect the cute robot! Don't forget!"

Their first magical attack was launched, sending a small compressed blast of wind at an approaching robot. The enemy in question was pushed back into a small group of his brethren while more would begin to approach the group. Grappa was caught off guard and swooped to her right to avoid getting crushed by a robot behind her. Jellisha retaliated by swinging her around to blast another one of them with wind. This blast didn't work as well with the first robot, most notably because of that adaptation feature spoken about previously.

"How's that's charging going, Amelie?"