Launch The Assault; Metal Pumpkinhead

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The 'Run' protocol was already launched long ago, and Metal Pumpkinhead had been booting up in the background, with the Black Friday inside. As it came time sooner and sooner of the next Friday The Thirteenth, the Metal Pumpkinhead would gradually undo the lock on the Ninth Moon. All of the information within would be ordered and cleansed during maintenance, which Metal Pumpkinhead was in charge of.

But, during the first portion, it would remain mostly dormant, harboring Black Friday within and cultivating the Black Friday so it would be a catastrophic event as its codes were unlocked from the outside.

In tandem with the resolution of the Metal Pumpkinhead for the inevitable kamikaze of the Ninth Moon, the true Pumpkinhead would also unlock more of himself simultaneously, because of the direct attachment to the Metal Pumpkinhead, his Pumpkintwin. That said, Pumpkindread, the Silver Pumpkinhead, who was known as Grimlock, would continue to manage the Maintenance, Scrap, and Archival methods until the Metal Pumpkinhead was prepared, which was why Metal Pumpkinhead would be dormant.

But, just because Metal Pumpkinhead was dormant, didn't mean the Mechanica that were under him were as well. So, the Mechanica were mobilized, as well as Xeno, the Crystal Darkness. They would be with the Dark Alice as well as doing other things subconsciously for Metal Pumpkinhead whilst it was dormant, awaiting the day of the Apocalypse.

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The deadline was set: Black Friday was established. With that came the embedding of the Dark Goddess herself, Black Friday, Meiun, to the interior of the Metal Pumpkinhead to secure the detonation sequence. Her coming aligned all of the Dark Ones of the Veritas, from the Dark God and Goddess, the Kurogami, the Keeper and the Alice, the Flame Of Eternity (Or, Souzenryoku), the Dark Legend, and the Void and Prime Chaos themselves.

All of that, inclusive to what it would do and all such potentiality on the outside, would be sealed by the alignment through the start of Black Friday inside of the Metal Pumpkinhead. Thus, when the Countdown was done, the Black Friday brewing inside to whatever degree or intensity it would become within, would also be released outside.

Fortuitously, there was already something inside of the Metal Pumpkinhead for Black Friday to play with so she wouldn't be bored waiting for the next Friday The Thirteenth, during the end of the Fall Of The Ninth Moon...

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As it came to pass, by code of protocol, Mechanica and Mechanica's Factorial City started themselves up, the Metal Pumpkinhead having helm of the operation. Though Mechanica was under the jurisdiction of Tear Lacrimoso, she was also gifted to Tabitha, who had also bonded with and become a new version of Mechanica whereas Tear kept the original Mechanica within his very soul.

The Mechanica that was who she is today produced so much of the Veritas' products and did business all over, but it was still limited in its reach. Any numeral within an infinitely large multiverse only ended up being a capacity for quantifying how little they could accomplish until they were infinitely many, everywhere. So all factors of Mechanica's Factorial City were activated all at once for the first time, and the entirety of Mechanica would become operational as a full unit rather than in segmented parts that were working in tandem.

Thus the full entity, Mechanica, planetary in size, and the Ninth Moon itself, would be set.

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Corresponding with the command to 'Mobilize Mechanica', after the Mechanica were done auto-correcting what was necessary down in the Dusk, they would take off to appropriate anything else in their way, triggering each other in their hive-mind collective to take proper procedural protocol to handle the operation using each and every Mechanica that the Veritas had to offer, all until reaching the actual Mechanica herself, in the flesh, on the Ninth Moon -- as the Ninth Moon.

Thus was how Mechanica's Factorial City started itself up again... For the final time. Now, Mechanica's dreams could become reality, as she always envisioned from the moment she started mass-producing her children. This was her way of giving life -- this was her destiny. So, all the descendants of the original Mechanica were hardwired to operate and rejuvenate the Factorial City that was their mother no matter what. That way, when Mechanica was again in command over all her children, they would serve her doing exactly as they did before fully raising her again -- as per design when she created them using everything she had. Now she'd get to see the day she would be with her children, and not fighting for their lives. Happy day.

Suddenly, Meiun triggered the Black Friday Countdown Sequence in the Metal Pumpkinhead, activating the Metal Pumpkinhead to complete the protocol. From there, Meiun would awaken, herself, and gain sentience within Metal Pumpkinhead as well as partial control of it when it was active thanks to her triggering.

The 'Master Control Code' for 'Manual Control' would be triggered in response to Black Friday initiating the Black Friday Protocol, effectively switching Metal Pumpkinhead on as a golem with a solitary intent. To accomplish her will it would do anything it was told by her, in recognition with previous protocol in order based on prior obligations. Metal Pumpkinhead was the most dutiful of servants, and doing something wrong or even the thought of such ill intent meant either 'Instant Death' or 'Eternal War'. There was nothing else, save the Metal Pumpkinhead being somehow at all even the tiniest bit responsible. It did literally nothing but follow protocol, that is all it wanted to do, and was bothered by absolutely any and everything else. Metal Pumpkinhead knew very well what it was -- it was Pumpkinhead as a fucking machine. But that didn't mean it didn't think like Pumpkinhead -- it just thought like Pumpkinhead as a machine. And truly, all Pumpkinhead wanted to do was accomplish whatever his most forward or ulterior goals were, and literally nothing in between or along the way between the absolute beginning and the very end of getting it all done.

The same was such with Metal Pumpkinhead, except instead of NOT enjoying getting things done, it, being a Mechanica, did enjoy getting tasks accomplished all day to absolute perfection completely undisturbed and without any delay or flaw or issue or blemish or imperfection in any likeness at all. That was a common thing, and was why humans sought perfection in literally every other way. But for a machine, it was meant to be that way constantly. So, Metal Pumpkinhead was adapted to it -- the work that Pumpkinhead hated doing, Metal Pumpkinhead liked doing.

Such was the personal purpose use of Metal Pumpkinhead by Pumpkinhead, himself. True story. But, as for the rest of the Tensei? Metal Pumpkinhead was the Souzenryoku Of Darkness, a forever enigma getting things done and keeping things going in total darkness and absolute solitude, often in silence, except for in brevity. So, they just left it undisturbed until a task was necessary to be completed, often as a sort of cushion for the Royal Servants as one of the Royal Servants -- the Personal Servant, that is; something like an overseer, or director. Manager, even.

All that to say, the Manual Overwrite gave Black Friday control, awakening them both simultaneously, synchronizing their minds, harmonizing their thoughts, and resonating their souls, so they moved in tandem -- as one fluid darkness; the Dark Goddess, Black Friday; and the Souzenryoku Of Darkness, Xeno, the Metal Pumpkinhead.

Once the code for Black Friday was initialized -- and by Black Friday herself, no less (with her own actual card in the Argus Card System, to boot) -- the Command Input would proceed as per protocol. This allowed Black Friday to use Metal Pumpkinhead's targeting system to plot the first points for Black Friday procedure, in order to get them started during the Countdown process, until they reached the Deadline, where Black Friday would be unleashed.

"This Time, I'll Make It As Permanent As The First Time... Back Then, I Had No Time, And Was In A Bad Position, Yet Still Prevailed Over Them With Absolute Force... Much Was Lost Back Then, Now That I Think About It. And I Hated Them Because Of My Things That Were Lost On Their Behalf... And I Took What Was Theirs From Them. In Fact, I Believe They Still Owe Me, And Part Of Me Wrapping Up This Plan Is To Harvest The Archives For Mineself After I Cut Them Off From Them. They Belong To Me... As Restitution For My Losses Due To Their Betrayal. Yes... It Is Finally Time To Collect Fully And Totally."