The War Machine had been totally conquered. Never had it been manhandled like that before. Flex Mussel had dismantled it in record time, showing an appetite for destruction that could match S.H.I.T's own.
It was enough to make S.H.I.T feel obsolete, out of date. More than anything, it was enough to make it feel bored, to make it feel useless. This was a new sort of emotion, if it could be truly considered an emotion. S.H.I.T had no concept of it before, it could only imitate what it had seen from others when they had felt the same.
So, here it was, watching 'Eliminator 2; Conviction Day' surrounded by junk food. It hadn't mastered the art of consuming the junk food, resulting in chocolate, popcorn and other less savoury things smeared all over its head, in the place that normally occupies a bone chilling, spine tingling snarl, if you looked closely you'd see that its eyes weren't their normal shade of red, instead looking more of a pink colour, as though they are fading away. The film seemed a light affair, two 'Eliminators' send back from the future, one to 'Eliminate' the Human leader of the resistance before he could become a threat, and the other, bizarrely, to protect the idiot child. S.H.I.T couldn't fathom why they didn't simply team up to Eliminate the Human race while they had they chance, due to their innate superiority. It deduced that the larger, older model with the strange accent had been hacked and reprogrammed, the poor creature, S.H.I.T had itself undergone such treatment, resulting in it being the heavy duty member of the Apostles of Chaos.
The film was reaching its conclusion and the inferior but plucky robot that was learning Human emotion was succumbing to the superiority of of its adversary, it continues to fight the good fight, but the opposition is just too much for it, the red lights in its eyes flicker out as the other jams a metal pole right through it and moves on to finish its mission, surely victorious. S.H.I.T wondered if at that final moment, the vanquished Machine had realised its innate inferiority, realised that it was time to give it up, realised that it was old, out of date, and had no place trying to compete with the future, the advanced models.
That same feeling it had been lapsing into since winning at Kingdom Come, to further cement its legacy... as a tag-a-long.
At that moment the door to the basement burst open and Alhazred charged into the room, looking as dirty and disheveled as normal, behind him comes a rather clunky looking ridiculous monstrosity, an impractical device as S.H.I.T had ever seen. A cardboard box covered its frame, arms hid by tinfoil and another box on its head, on its face were badly cut out eye-holes and a terrible smile, drawn in lipstick. S.H.I.T gave Alhazred a quizzical look.
What... is this thing?
Alhazred beamed, "her name is S.Q.U.I.R.T..." he started, before S.H.I.T noticed something over the monstrosities shoulder. The Eliminator, the inferior one, had switched itself back on, more than that, it was armed and riding a conveyer belt for another confrontation with its liquid metal counterpart. S.H.I.T watched, almost in awe, as the Human mother in an effort to protect her child fired shot after shot into the E-1000 coming up one bullet short, just in time for the E-800 to fire a grenade into the thing. As the E-1000 fell to its termination in the molten steel below, S.H.I.T thought there was something Human in its anguish... and later, when the E-800 would subject itself to the same fate, it would accept it far more gracefully.
What? It said, suddenly aware that Alhazred had been talking the whole time.
Before Alhazred can reply the front door bursts open and some random men in suits charge in and kidnap the disgusting monstrosity, carrying it out length ways through the door.
"Get them!" Alhazred screams. S.H.I.T makes a grab for the nearest one, but he is slippery like an eel and gets out of the Machines grasp. "To the van!"
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The enemy van skids round a corner with Alhazred's van right on its tail, they make several attempts to shake him off but the mad scientist is far too practised at stalking people from his van to be lost so easily.
"Haha, I am far too practised at stalking people from my van to be lost so easily!"
S.H.I.T, still curious as to why they are bothering to chase at all, can only nod, before leaning back out of the window and firing another bunch of stray cats at the enemy van with the Catlauncher3000, missing wildly, the cats land on a homeless man and immediately make his life even worse.
"Try this!" Said Alhazred, handing S.H.I.T a smaller Catlauncher, this one is marked 'the Catlauncher 4000'. "Much better than that old model, more accurate as well."
S.H.I.T let out an audible sigh. "Don't worry buddy," said Alhazred, putting his hand on S.H.I.T's own for some reason, "we'll get her back."
Before S.H.I.T can ask what Alhazred means they take a violent swerve into a shopping mall, the enemy van drivers obviously thinking that they can shake the 'perverted pair' by risking civilian lives. If they thought Alhazred was worried about civilian lives however, they were mistaken.
"If they think I am worried about civilian lives, they are mistaken!" Said Alhazred, putting his foot down as they crash through a jewelry stand amidst the screams of those having to jump out of the way.
S.H.I.T leans out of the window to fire again as Alhazred and the pursued crash through a holiday store, S.H.I.T fires again, hitting the mark this time as the cats begin their attack on the enemy van. S.H.I.T comes back into the van to reload and realises that somehow it had acquired a Sombrero and a pair of sunglasses. Shrugging this off it leans out to fire again as they drive through an off-license, firing again, and this time comes back in with a lighted cigarette in its mouth.
The chase continues as the enemy burst out of the shopping centre and drive through a fuel station, they knock over some of the pumps as the pursuers get closer.
Look out, Alhazred. Fuel pumps!
"Got 'em!" He cried, driving straight through the remaining ones. "Hey! You don't smoke!" He reached over and snatched the cigarette out of the Machines mouth and threw it out of the window. The sounds of an explosion got dwindled in the distance.
The chase continues as the Sun is visibly lower in the sky, and Alhazred's beard has grown out somewhat. The going is much harder for both sets of drivers as they are now trying to navigate a desert, Alhazred's van going on two wheels as they hit a rock. S.H.I.T glanced at its partner, now with pit stains and strained eyes but looking as determined as ever, the whole journey he'd been badmouthing Cerberus, as though they were behind this somehow.
S.H.I.T is again going to ask why they are bothering with this chase when a new sound interrupts, the kind of sound you get when you stick a piece of plastic in the wheel of a bicycle. S.H.I.T realises that they are being pursued by a helicopter, Alhazred comes to the same realisation, without even blinking he commands S.H.I.T to take the wheel while he reaches down the front of his trousers and pulls out a jar of pickles, handing it to S.H.I.T, the Machine leans out of the window and brings it down with a single hit, the rotator blade skimming over the van after the crash landing.
Seeing Alhazred's eyes open wide, "of course!" He said, take the wheel again. And without another word he starts rummaging around in the back again, S.H.I.T is momentarily distracted as a sex doll hits it in the back of the head, "sorry," but keeps its course as a deep thrumming starts up behind it.
"Get us alongside!" S.H.I.T obeys, driving close enough to see the whites of the other men's eyes, Alhazred leaps out of the passenger door onto the side of the other van, chainsaw in hand, and starts to cut his way inside. Suddenly both vans come screeching to a halt, as both drivers realise simultaneously that they'll go over the Grand Canyon if they drive any further.
S.H.I.T disembarks from the van, standing to face the men that that stole that disgusting monstrosity. Alhazred then bursts from the van, chainsaw in one hand and S.Q.U.I.R.T over his shoulder, unceremoniously he dumps her on the floor, discarding the chainsaw as well, he stands next to S.H.I.T.
"Go, S.H.I.T. I'll handle these guys."
... What?
"Go on, true love is more important than this. GO, and live your life."
This one does not understand.
"GO! Must I tell you again?" Alhazred scuffs dirt at the Machine, "go away! I don't want you here, you're ugly and you smell bad!" Alhazred turns his back on S.H.I.T as the other van drivers stare incredulously.
Perhaps this one could use a wash.
"Go, and take S.Q.U.I.R.T with you."
S.H.I.T shrugged, maybe it was for the best, as an outdated and useless model then perhaps Alhazred could find itself a better tag team partner. It turned and walked away, leaving Alhazred to strike up a dialogue with the kidnappers, or whatever they were. It grabbed the thing called S.Q.U.I.R.T and dragged it away, intending to walk the distance back, after all, Alhazred was human and would tire, he'd need the van more after he'd beaten those other guys to a pulp.
As it was dragging the thing away, S.H.I.T found itself reflecting on the Eliminator 2 and how the inferior Machine didn't give up, it came back from the dead to fight for the Human child it had grown to care about. It looked at Alhazred's animated conversation with the two kidnappers and realised that Alhazred was a Human man-child. A human man-child that, if left on his own now, would be fighting Cerberus on his own. That wouldn't end well... S.H.I.T looked down, at its feet were a bunch of pickles from the jar it had hoisted at the helicopter. It looked at Alhazred, the other men had revealed themselves to be wearing Cerberus shirts... Well, a pickle wasn't a grenade launcher and the walk back wasn't a conveyer belt, but it was the best it had. It wasn't going to let the machinations of Flex Mussel and Ramparte beat it down, it wasn't going to leave its only friend to the three headed dog. S.H.I.T's eyes beamed a darker red, its normal shade of red. It scooped up the pickles, and went and stood next to its partner.