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Chaser - Tyler Barnaby 8th Grade

Boot up sequence started , using fuel reserves . Boot up sequence finished . Primary objective : Locate fuel . Secondary objective : Retrieve terminal and recover its lost data . Home is dead . Blood is fuel . Planet is full .

The machine awoke , immediately noting that it had awoken in a cabin . It moved its arm- or well , tried to . The creature of steel turned its head to the left expecting to recognize its red , steely arm . Instead , it saw that its left arm had been completely removed from its body , replaced by a metal stub wrapped in oily , decaying bandages reaching down from its shoulder . The construct got up , it saw that it had been on a bed , granted the bed looked old and decayed , the machine still gave a notion of gratitude to whomever put it there . It tried to access its arsenal data , but instead saw a message .

DATA NOT FOUND . CONTACT ADMIN .

The automaton was surprised by the message , expecting a good chunk of the data to still be there . It