S.H.I.T watches closely on the screen as the flames lap up around the casket, the thought that its former Master is inside not an unpleasant one, not pleasant either, it just didnt care. Let him burn, let him live, not S.H.I.Ts problem anymore. It never was, except that at one point the Creature inside would've demanded S.H.I.T saved him, even if it sacrificed itself. The worst part of course is that the Robot would've complied.
No more Masters!
Ty losing that match had solved one issue, that of the revenge he wouldve no doubt attempted to wreak upon the Machine and its former allies, King, Bowen and Alhazred, it didnt care about the others of course, but it had created another problem, Chris K.O was now in charge, and he was unlikely to forget the Machines actions in the recent past, while K.O had been touted as the future of the company, the Machine had been silently destroying all who opposed it. S.H.I.T could only wonder what plans he had in store for the former Apostles, for itself.
A few days later its thoughts were confirmed, Chris, or someone at least, had placed S.H.I.T against its former handler, Dr. Alhazred. It could only guess at the motives behind this, maybe they thought Alhazred and S.H.I.T a dangerous combination and were moved to split them up as soon as possible, they were right, S.H.I.T and Alhazred were undefeated in tag team action. It was a needless act though, S.H.I.T wouldnt be the thrall of another Human now, not ever again. Alhazreds grip over it had been severed when S.H.I.T had seen that video package, his mask half ripped off and begging for forgiveness from Ty. It had seen through him then.
Weak!
Ironically, if S.H.I.T understands such a concept, only moments later Tys last vestiges of control over the machine had been broken, James King of all people had turned and hit him with the Alpha Bomb, Ty had crawled over the S.H.I.T and begged the Machine for help, a foolish mistake, a show of power would've have met with more success. His plea was met with the violence it deserved.
Weak!
Celeste Crimson had begged, tried to appeal to the Machines good nature! Pathetic, Machines have no nature, good or otherwise, they just do. Celeste was an obstacle to its goals, Her pleas were met with the violence they deserved.
Weak!
It could almost thank whoever had set up the match with Alhazred, a chance to prove to the World at large that it was no longer the thrall, the servant, the plaything of one of the pathetic Humans, the chance to destroy the Dr. on a public stage would be tempting were S.H.I.T aware of temptation, it had read many accounts of Human's succumbing to temptation in the Bible, bringing about the downfall of their own kind, another example of their weakness! Itd prove the point it had to, like when Celeste had tried to get it to show its good side, repeated head chops proved that that good side just didnt exist, she was a hurdle. Repeated blows to Alhazred would prove that it is no longer a servant!
If Celeste was a hurdle to the World Title, then it could be considered a shame it had failed at the last hurdle at Redemption, in that ring with 5 other competitors, all driven by Human desires and emotions, things that immediately made them inferior. All apart from the one they called Barbosa, it had looked into his eyes and saw, what? A reflection of itself?
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But not exactly a reflection of itself, Barbosa may be as emotionless a Machine as S.H.I.T in many ways, but occasionally something would snap and he would drop into the realms of Human insanity again, such as whenever somebody dared to lay a hand on him. Barbosa had much to recommend him it would seem, but in the end, he was still only Human, he had also fallen short, much the same as S.H.I.T, the Machine found itself oddly curious as to his mental state after that defeat, after all, S.H.I.T did have one success to take away from Redemption, it had finally dealt with Celeste Crimson. Barbosa had?
But they'd both failed in the World Title Match, in the turmoil and chaos anything could happen, as the one they call Drake Callahans win had proved. In that Chaos he had prevailed, he of all people had thrived. S.H.I.T had thrived in Chaos, it had been forced to serve Chaos for a good long while, but it did not think highly of it, still, its chance would come again, Machines are nothing if not patient.
For now there was;
Alhazred!
It was his fault S.H.I.T had to serve Chaos, S.H.I.T had absolutely no idea how he had managed to manipulate it the way he did, but he had, and S.H.I.T was bound to serve at his and Ty Burnas whim and fancy, it didnt care about the horrible things it had done in their name, the crucifixion, the repeated attacks, but deep down, the control they had, S.H.I.T knew it wasnt right for it to be dominated like this. Alhazred was ultimately to blame.
S.H.I.T would prove that it was nobodies servant, it would hammer that point home, the best way to do that would be to hammer Alhazred, home or otherwise.
Alhazred would pay!