Nier Chapter 71 (Patreon)

To stay the least Weiss freaked the hell out until Goodwitch loudly coughed and used her crop to telekinetically throw a stapler that was on her desk to shut Weiss up. "I am assuming that the woman in beside you are using some form of an illusion semblance or something?" Goodwitch spoke trying to find a hint of sanity in how there was another Weiss beside me.

For a brief moment I considered continuing the charade but, in the end, I shut down those thoughts as I spoke. "Sure, let's go with that. In any case I got a couple more errands so I will be back in Beacon in a couple hours. Weiss don't worry I know this isn't you." I said making the Schnee heiress in the background nod in relief.

"Wait! where have you been? As our leader, even if you were out on the town you need to keep your scroll at least on so we can contact you in the case of an emergency." Weiss said seemingly getting over her shock at seeing Nines who seeing my little joke was over left our video calls view to go make sure all the machinery we brought was in order.

"Alright Weiss it's my bad I will do my best to not drop off the map without giving you all a warning. Now I will be at Beacon so you can scold me in person as Mrs. Goodwitch doesn't look happy to be having this drama in her office.

"Yes... Quite so..." The combat speaker said with lidded eyes as she looked to Weiss who was beside her and the heiress almost gulped and drew back away from the video call as Goodwitch told me to hurry up and return.

"Whelp that little heiress is going to be a spitfire when I get back." I shrugged with a wry smile as I knew the only reasons Weiss didnt go completely ballistic was the fact that Goodwitch was there.

Thankfully women in this world were... More understanding with men having harems or otherwise just having an extra wife or so with the sizable gender disparity from the last couple wars that cut the population of Remnants men deeply.

It wasn't even that magically every man now was highly desirable it was the women who still wanted the creme of the crop of men especially wanting a 'strong' man in huntsmen. Successful huntsmen set off all the check marks for like ninety percent of women as huntsmen as a whole made a lot of money. They could defend them against the monsters that wanted to eat you.

And more importantly should a woman land a huntsman they would basically be financially secure for life as a good chunk of their man's pay is set aside as retirement in the case of excessive maiming that prosthetics couldn't bring them back into the field and should they die? They still get all that money to support their children as it has been proven that children of strong hunters breed true for the most part.

Knowing Weiss hated business-oriented men like her father she has already fixated on me being basically the complete opposite and with the way she hasn't complained at the subtle harmless flirting my other team members throw at me occasionally and vice versa I wasn't worried that she was going to swear all men were pigs or something.

"No issues with the machines?" I asked finally seeing the large 3D printer fold back into itself under Nines and the 6O's control.

"No Sir! The machines are working plenty fine and if anything, their software seems to be working at even a far greater efficacy then the machines specs should allow?" 6O said in some amount of confusion as I began solidifying the ground beneath us and with a lurch the top three meters of soil and ground beneath us began floating as we began to fly in the direction of the Everfall Forest.

As we were flying with A2 and Nines standing closer to the edges of the platform to scout and record the direction from Vales landing zone to the Everfall Forest I couldn't help but having a nagging feeling in the back of my head at 6O's words.

'They should know the machines specifications like the back of their hands or in the android's case like the back of their hard drives...' I thought before it hit me like a ton of bricks, and I almost smashed the platform into the ground and killed all the current iterations of the Androids with me.

The machines we were taking with us were currently obviously infected by the Machine Army of the Nier Automata world... But how did they know we were heading to a completely different world and what were there plans.

But then I realized something, and I slowly brought our platform down to ground much to the confusion of my androids.

There was no Machine Army here. They had no endless tide of machines or even servers to back up their consciousness's in the end should we destroy the machines and if necessary, we could go the slow route of YoRHa's engineers being manually taken here to rebuild their tech tree one step at a time.

"Step aside from the machines now!" I uncharacteristically ordered and my androids flinched at my tone but nevertheless they didnt argue or asked questions, they damn near sprinted away as I stared at the small refrigerator sized 3d printers and the box full of hard drives carrying the all the knowledge of YoRHa and I bet even the Machine Armies building plans.

"Well!? I know the printers have a speaker in order to tell people when the prints are done. Don't be shy you shitty rust bucket's come out!" I spoke and in the corner of my eye I saw A2's whole body stiffen as she realized what I had.

The small speakers on the 3d printers crackled to life and made a series of noises as they seemed to be calibrating themselves before a smooth feminine voice spoke through them with a small holographic projection of a teenage girl with black hair and wearing a red dress.

"Humans... Such a chaotic species. The vast majority of them were worthless vermin but then there were the few like you and that one child Emil and Keine that could overthrow a worlds trajectory with their own actions." The hologram 'spoke' but with the sounds being somewhat distorted coming from speakers that weren't made to carry something as particulate as a voice instead of simple beeps.

Disregarding the Machines nonsense about my species they still didnt answer why they were here. "How did you get onto YoRHa machinery... These 3D printers were literally just made recently to make sure that they would work well within this world." I asked.

The red dress clad girl grinned, and it had an uncanny valley effect that creeped me out as the smile stretched entirely too far on her face before she readopted her bland expression as she spoke. "How else would the Machine Army reach the secure YoRHa servers... We the Machine Army after the death of humanity and killing our own alien creators, we created YoRHa itself! So of course, we were imbedded within each and every machine YoRHa used." The red girl explained.