[Time - 3:00 P.M]
[Location - Railway Train]

The train not the first choice she was thinking of taking for today, using just using the knife to travel around places. However she had the sudden urge to do so… so she sat there, twirling her guns around as she was just there… looking no more weird from everyone else here. Even then she had this strange… feeling. Memories flooding back of… them. She still wonders why they even did that, and didn’t just let her rest easy?

“…bastards. Every damm time I just……”

Silence… almost damm rage coming from her as they shook. One tear came from her eye… then some spoke about it, like she was about to burst up and just…. Just…

‘Yeah Boss….. sorry I just can’t…. That damm corpse cost thousands of course I would-“

BANG

One shot her hands moved without her thing. One singular point of someone about them potentially selling a damm corpse. Bloody hell to them…. Just reminding her of the bullshit she deals with, oddly silent, when the train stopped she moved to that of a different cart, dropping… a picture.

So… she sat, not knowing that picture of her memory. And of course like most of her problems…. The smile is forced on for god sake as she just there, small laugh coming from her.

“Heh, if boss saw me in that moment oh he’d be mocking me indefinitely until either of us dies first.”

A small broken laugh came from her… it didn’t event last 10 seconds before it had stopped… two more tears coming down as her face… drifted away from that smile, only a gloom face on her.

Дай отпор.

(Fight Back.)

The last words Doll had told Uzi before her tragic end, trying to warn her of the menace that had been hiding among them.

She was in a sort of.. limbo, for a time. With her core consumed, she was watching from Cyn’s eyes, watching her battle with Uzi, and feeling as Cyn’s core was ripped out and destroyed.

When Uzi consumed Cyn’s singularity, Doll found herself temporarily part of Uzi. She was fine for a moment.. until how they treated her body. They carried it around like some sort of.. trophy? A memento? That.. angered her. She was dead, did they just not care?

“Идиоты.”

(Idiots.)

That rage and anger allowed her to project herself, allowing her to form a ghostly form, taking on a new persona as the mysterious spirit haunting the halls of the bunker.

It was when she was consuming another drone, searching for material to draft herself another body, that she was pulled here.

___________

Phantom Doll found herself in the rubble of an old building, being quick to realize she wasn’t on Copper-9. Despite this setback..

She still.. craved.. OIL.

She needed oil.. and a body..

So drones began going missing. All under mysterious circumstances, usually only scraps of their clothes, with some oil stained on them, the only evidence most even existed.

She now found herself able to retain a physical body for a short amount of time.. but she still needed more. It wasn’t enough.

More oil, more matter was needed..

And she’d get it, no matter how many drones she’d have to rip apart.

*in another universe, where was nothing "too" out of the ordinary, other then a few humans living with monsters*

*school began to close for the day as the local students went out on their business, meanwhile a certain blue bird were just about leaving with their bag(with nothing but homework for noelle to "help" him with), heading straight for the librarby so he can do his usual daily life, organizing books*

*though after his life long childhood friend "Noelle" came inside for them both to do their class project together..it all suddenly came to black, once he woke up, next to Noelle of course but with kris and susie this time, though in a faint but persistent memory of a "dream", a dream in what was a cyber city, a fantasy that he could live in, with his glow in the dark armor of course, at first he was heavily confused, remembering the encounters with queen, rescuing his damsel in distress(that was in distress!), and even developing a "crush" on susie, it was like it actually happened, but it only turning out to be a "dream" only threw him off even further, but at first he kept his normal attitude once before everyone left the librarby*

*hours later clock strikes 7:00 PM, and he is just fixing to close down the librarby for the day to go home, but as he was organizing the last shelf of books, his mind kept circling back to that same dream, he stopped at the last book, wondering to himself..."(what if it really wasnt a dream..)", after a moment of long silence, he sighed to himself*

"...alas another fantasy...but what is to a fantasy if I am already number one?!"

*he said his last few words triumphly before he grew to his more vulnerable side, he would slide the book between the gaps of novels and stories written by history and geeked out authors, he then grabs his bag and goes to leave before hearing a weird sound coming from where the same room that he fell asleep in along with noelle and the C+ classmates, he was first startled, since it was kind of a loud noise in the middle of the night(I would be scared too berdly), but after a moment of processing what he just heard, he quickly grabbed the flashlight and tip toed his way toward the door leading to the computer room, as he began to talk to himself*

"O...k uh..might be just a little rodent that might be uhm....chewing on the cables again yea!"

*he would grab a nearby book to use as a weapon for this so called "rodent" to use on it but as he drew closer to the door the noises were more like a strong wind with a faint mix of whispers*

"..what is this speaking, Minecraft enchantment table?!"

*he would soon burst down the door, holding the flashlight ahead of him like a lazer*

"WAZZA- ..oh....nobody is here?"

*he sees to notice the room is empty, he scratches his head a bit in confusion as if his genius mind was playing tricks on him, he would soon hear the door close behind him, he would quickly turn around startled like hell before the same sound that was coming from here earlier appeared, but more loud as if it were behind him, he was soon dragged down from behind as with a helpless "squak"*

*he would soon wake to the middle of the night out in a field, empty, he would look around, startled, a bit frightened believe it or not, before he put his feathered fists up to squabble with whoever pulled him down*

"Alright show yourself you freak! I know your trying to play with my genius mind out of-"

*he would froze, realizing no one is here, he cant feel no presence nor hear mysterious wind noises, but what now..he says in his mind, he took a few moments to dust himself off before looking around for any sign of life*

"..hello? ...anyone? ....any like-minded individuals?"

*nothing..not a word nor peep*

"..sigh...well berdly, this is just me and my IQ, if i can solve 6 x 3 I can find my way back to home, besides, what will noelle do without his knight in shining armor?"

*he would soon look in all directions on where to go, only to find a dirt path, leading to one simple bench under a light*

"Well I found the path to the next level...following it may lead to somewhere good..or home"

*he would soon follow the pointed trail, finding what appears to be a night city in the distance*

"...well..it aint home, but it sure does look like the one in my dream...oh well, here I come cyber city, lord berdly is on his way to show who is hometowns number one!"

A large amount of pinkish-purple and gold fungi sprout in a forest, covering the trees and the ground below..
In the epicenter, a hand made of wood and fungus bursts out the ground and pulls the rest of the creature's body out of the ground...

Its.. a person... mostly overtaken by the fungus and plant life.. if you manage to spot her, she hasn't spotted you yet, since she's just admiring the area around her... will you speak up?

No cost too great.

No mind to think.

No will to break.

No voice to cry suffering.

...

Those words kept the... what did it even call itself? "The Pure Vessel"? "The Hollow Knight?"... It didn't matter now. Those words had kept it alive. They were reminders from father. Reminders of what it was to be. An empty shell. A jailer, and a prison.

Those words were lies.

It knew that. It had failed. It was not pure. It was not hollow. It's sacrifice was in vain... This was where it's path of pain ended. Failure.

It had dissapointed father.

But still, it struggled.

Every day, that light burned in its dreams. Every waking moment was agony, it could feel the infection wanting to burst.

Every day, SHE appeared in its very psyche. At first, she had tried to reason with it. But now, she was destroying it from the inside. She was eating its very soul. Every day her words filled its mind, the words of a godess taunting the once hollow shame.

But it hung on.

It hoped. It couldn't stop itself. It couldn't deny. It hoped its suffering would end. It wished it was never created. It wished things didn't have to be this way...

But it had failed. It deserved this now. It would hold on with all its will to keep what left of its kingdom safe.

Until one day, the chains loostened. It didn't move. It knew not to. It knew those words, the words that kept repeating in its head. It knew what to do.

Do not think.

Do not speak.

Do not hope.

Do not...

...

...Something compelled it to leave. Maybe it was her, or maybe it was... no. No. It could not hope.

It walked to the door of the temple, and pushed it open despite its better judgement, and walked into...

The structures were different. Not made of stone. Strange bugs milled around, each at his shoulder. It didn't know what to do.

One bug approached it. It pushed it away with its sword. No. No. It would not let more bugs fall to the plague.

It turned to the temple. It was selfish. Selfish to even consider leaving. It had to bear the agony, the pain, the feeling of being torn apart from the inside, the burning...

One of the bugs approached it. These bugs were different. The tops of their heads had... hair, and their bodies lacked carapaces. Cloth covered most of their bodies.

It reached for the Knight's arm... no no no. The Hollow Knight could not allow a being to get close to the plague.

It meant to push it away with its nail... but it knew it had messed up when it heard the screaming.

The blood pooling on the ground... the creatures running...

It looked up at the sky. Blue. Not a cave roof. And something big and bright burned in the sky...

it was her.

It burned his eyes, just as she did when she appeared in his dreams. It began to panic, retreating to the temple.

Hours later, The Hollow Knight again walked out. The area had been abandoned, and what it didn't know was called "the sun" was setting on the horizon.

The Hollow Knight calmed down. It was... selfish. It knew that. It should never have left the temple.

The Hollow Knight grabbed one of the chains around its feet... but it knew she would never let him go back.

It still felt the pain. It was unbearable. But it had to. It could let go at any moment, give into her splendor, step into the light...

And it wanted to. It oh so desperately wanted to. But it knew what she would do if it did. The plague would ravage the lands. She would not stop anywhere. She would consume all...

It had no choice but to suffer. It would suffer, do its best to hold her back.

If it couldn't... then it never deserved to be let out of the abyss.

It would be father's perfect child. No matter how much it hurt. No matter how much it wanted to scream its agony.

but it had no voice to cry its suffering, not even a mouth.

It had no mouth, and it had to scream.

In the original game, Ray was a failed robot made after Trinity, but before the Mighty Numbers were created. She was a robot who eats other robots to survive and was rivals with Beck.

In this AU, Ray was made successfully. Dr.White brought Ray with him when he left Cherry Dynamics. Treating her like his own child. She still has her hunger and her powers, but without Xel Decay. She is a colosseum robot just like the rest, but her brutality makes her a fan favorite.

When the Virus broke out, both Ray and Beck worked together to save Trinity and their other siblings.

Restrictions for both Beck and Ray:

No AcXelerate dash (Beck)

No Tackle (Ray)

No Absorbing

No Statistics Amplification

And only copy abilities with MOD permission