DEATH CORE [REBOOTED]

"Alpha team lost contact at 7:34 Pm. Delta and Charlie lost their vital signals 20 minutes after the last picture capture from unit 447, nothing except glitched and disorientated. S-404 cannot be found after three teams lost contact at location 7. Unable to find shreds of evidence or witnesses at target house"

James absorbed the fuel into the infinite void storage inside his core when the last body disintegrated into particles. " that's the last body, around 278 KG worth of material" 

he happily hopped to Clare who was cleaning the blood stain inside her house, the wet rag absorbed the fresh blood, and the bucket completely went pitch dark red by the amount of gore the core and human splattered under "His" hands.

"You got a nice house Clare" his skeleton arms hand-free looking at her family pictures "Is this your dad?" 

Clare, surprised, snatched the picture from his hand. "Don't touch around without my perm," she seriously said. She didn't want this Core of Destruction to cause damage unintentionally.

"Sorry..." he looks around before helping her finish the last stain in the house.

Afterward, they all rested in the living room where the two stared uncomfortably at each other, mostly because Clare wasn't used to the horrific Core.

"So... Jame... can you tell me about... your origin?" 

"Oh... that's... I don't know"

"Really? Doesn't every core have memories about the day they were made?"

he chuckled, "Hehe, not really for me"

Clare uncomfortably rubbed her fingers. She tried to hide it under the table, but James had already seen it. His eyes scanned her facial expression and he looked through the table at her body heat.

"Say, what do you feel about me?"

Clare, confused, "I- I-"

"Is it because of my appearance that I am disturbing you?"

Clare was shocked, she got read inside her mind.

"How about I change my looks?"

Clare was wide open, seeing that weird liquid thing flowing out from the crack on his body, it moving on his robotic body, his limbs like getting absorbed into the liquid, his body reshaped into the Cube form, then appeared four rings made from pure energy, mixed with metal liquid, crafting back together into a human anatomy, the cube covered by the smaller frame of Exo-skeleton. The liquid covered his body, creating the shape of a tall boy, his white hair, got even more fluffy and pointy, shaped with two horns or ears. The skin slowly got its color, and the clothes on him also reshaped from that liquid, a black jacket over a grey shirt, with his core symbol, the red neon lines on his shirt emitting to show how intimidated he is, the dark-colored Jean along with his sharpy tail claws, finally a black cap with the designated number 404 on his head.

Clare's jaw was wide open upon seeing how fabulous Jame was, for the first time, she saw a Core that looked very like a Human.

"how do I look?" she casually, spinning a row for Clare to see.

She reached her hand to feel the fabric. His cold skin felt very real, although she could feel the metal under the flesh. "Your capabilities are fascinating..." Inside her, she felt better, seeing a good-looking dude rather than an abomination of reinforced steel. "So you can transform into anything?"

Jame happily answers her question, the sharp fangs on his grin telling no lie "Not quite, little friend, I can't reconstruct myself into complex stuff like organic matter, that's the downside. But I can shapeshift into lots of kinds of things. Just... I'm missing that feature"

His chest phased into small particles, revealing his core "You can see my core right?"

Clare stared deeply at the inside, a pitch-black cube surrounded by wires, fused into it, she noticed some of the wires didn't emit crimson light. she nods

"the day I was created someone stole parts of me, to weaken my destructive. Even though I was still missing some of it, I still confidently, surely call myself the strongest, the God of mass destruction!" he sounds crazy, Jame's head filled with complex thoughts and codes, making his brain not normal.

Clare stands up to cover his glitchy voice, "can you be quiet?"

"Sorry..." 

she thought to herself: 'This boy is crazy... did my mom seriously give this monster to me? Although... he did save me... I'm his administrator'

"Do a headstand" she said awkwardly 

"Uh... why tho?" he's confused about that order. 

"Do it... I gave you an order..."

Jame blinked a few times before he did a headstand on the ground, his tail holding his hat, and his jacket and shirt falling on his face. Clare stared at his tone and sharp body; her nose bled a bit. Satisfied or making sure, Clare was quite excited to know he was her personal Core, like a butler.

"Ok, get me a can of cola!"

Jame's tail grew longer and longer to reach her fridge inside the kitchen, it grabbed the handle, and pulled out with not much force, bringing out her coke while he was doing a headstand.

"Amazing!" she giggles dangerously, she made Jame question things about her.

 "Okay you can get down now, I know what to do now"

"Really? Cuz you just experienced a near-death situation and watched me brutally slaughter a group of cores and people..."

"Yes that's true, but I'm your administrator, you have to follow me" She sounds very smirky and cocky, not like what she liked just now.

Jame smiles, he looks happy to see she's not awkwardly around him anymore. By now he would think of a way to break out of codex, finding a way to take over control, but something that acts him like a normal human.

Clare noticed Him smiling at her, her face went red upon seeing how childish she sounded. "Shut up!"

"I didn't say anything" Giggles

cover her face in an instinct.

Jame and Clare go out to buy ice cream together, they go home and she tries some tests on him, she makes him try and do various things like a junior scientist. The night went by so easily, that the street went silent when the time hit late. Those people still looking for them.

Jame looked at Clare's face, he moved away from her messy hair on the white skin to see her closed eyes. after making sure she was deep asleep on her bed. 

"Oh little lamb... you look tasty, you stay here and rest, and I'll have a snack...." he got up from her bed, quietly, Jame opened the window of her room, and he got out after letting out a small sadistic giggle.

The night was seemingly calm with drops of blood pouring out in the street, along with the mumbled scream when their throats got slit open, and their lungs were incinerated. The sounds of their heart ripped out from their chest with the fangs taking a bit out of every last one of those poor souls with no chance to fight again the monster of the night.

Jame took a closer look at the tablet one of them dropped, he picked it up while holding a soldier on his right, her mouth covered by his hand, keeping her in the air, struggling to escape his grasp. His hand formed out ports plug and connected to the tablet, data and digital information absorbed into his head with ease, he accessed their main database, gathered their locations, and deleted the current task, hiding him and her track.

"thank you for letting me use your ID... I won't need you anymore" 

a quick snap on his wrist, her spinal cord broke in two, and her blood vessels exploded. Blood splattered on his crazy smile, the smile of an insane killer. The corpses were slowly being dragged away, and the stains had been cleaned instantly, and no one would know what happened there.

[tomorrow]

the sunlight shining through the curtain inside the girl's room, Clare's phone ringing telling her it's time to be ready for school. 

She gets up from a vivid dream, finding her phone with her eyes closed, she feels cold skin. Looking back it was him, James was "sleeping?". she couldn't believe this boy, lying there like a dead person.

"Jame! Wake up" She poked his face, then opened his eyes, seeing the red digital word saying "sleep mode"

everything seems to make sense since Core has a power-saving mode. Eventually, he woke up after Clare had prepared for her school.

"Heeyy~" he fly over to her

"I'm going to school, I thought you won't wake up"

"don't you think you should quit school? we're being wanted by an association with power to manipulate the whole government"

Clare let out a sigh, "Yes, but I still need to have another goal not become a dangerous person like you"

"Sessh thanks" he giggles.

Clare then goes to her school on foot, alongside her is a tall handsome white prince in black. Everyone from her school staring at her and this mysterious person. "Is he from our school?", "Why is Clare next to him?", and "Are they a couple?" questions upon questions. Clare Feels embarrassed, although she can't leave this killing machine alone.

One of her friends snuck up on her, and she tried to tickle Clare to surprise her, but Jame's direct order stopped her, his hand holding onto her shirt. 

"What do we have here?" he said.

Clare looked at her friend being crazy over Jame.

"Omg, is this your boyfriend?! He's so tall and has a nice face. Clare! Why didn't you tell us you have a boyfriend!?"

"I- no!" she wants to think of a good explanation "he's not my boyfriend, what are you talking about?"

"How come he's not your boyfriend? You two were walking together. Hey, handsome can I get your number?"

Clare stopped her friend. "Don't "

her friend smirked, "Ahhh... I see.."

"No, you're not!" her face goes red, she grabs Jame's hand and pulls him away

"Have fun lovely duo!" 

Clare quickly gets to her school with Jame, and everyone is still talking about her as expected. 

"Ok, can you turn it into something small? like that cube thingy"

"Haha, sure, funny how they think I'm your boyfriend"

"Shut up and do it"

"Okay," he shrugged before his body switched back to Small particles, to molecule arms and legs disappeared then the body, then back into the cube, floating in the air with the digital red face on 1 side. "Now I-"

Clare quickly snatched him into her pocket. "Stay there and be quiet," she said. She quickly got into her class, just before the speaker announced it was time to return to class.

The morning routine went by boringly, it's all studying and doing classwork. Clare occasionally takes Jame out to help her with the difficult task. Lunchtime came with Clare and Jame, She snuck outside the cafeteria, getting to the hidden corner of the school. 

"k, you can come out now"

"school is boring..." he transformed into his human shape. "I wanna do something more interesting not this kind of paper writing things"

"oh yeah, you can create anything, make me something I can cheat on the chems test" Her eyes lit up with excitement"

"Wow, that desperate?" Jame forms up the materials, from his palm with the red glowing shape of a cube to create a small device. "attach this to your ear it will directly connect to your Brain using a signal, so I can see through your eyes and look for answers"

Clare took it, she immediately plugged it in behind her ears. A laugh that makes her dignity drop down, even makes Jame find it amusing. After a quick meal and rest, sometimes dodging words from people about the two. Clare then goes back to do her test. To her surprise, the device and everything went smoothly. The teacher with the highest anti-cheating device can't even tell the difference.

Clare easily passed her test with the help of Jame. Clare got out of the classroom with a wide smirk on her face, happy, and devious knowing from now on she wouldn't need to study hard for those hard subjects. 

after school with boring papers and speeches, Clare with her free time and no restraint from anyone, quite sad, yet she still being positive. The emergence of James had made her life more thrilling, it lowkey helped her let go of the wounds of losing her family.

James and her wander the town where she lives, they stop from place to place, drink stores, shopping, and even try liquor stores even tho she is underage.

"Mom said 18, but who cares" 

"Clare, you know I'm also 15 like you, right?"

"What kind of murder core are you? C'mon you're supposed to listen to me, also the law doesn't apply to artificial bio-living robots"

He scratches his hair, "Actually not one of them but okay."Then he chugged the whole bottle filled with alcohol they mixed in the forest "See it doesn't affect me" 

"This tastes horrible" She throws the bottle at the stone, breaking it. "I have a small place in this forest side" She took Jame's hand and dragged him along the tree lines, something unexpected when she saw a group of adult kids around her ground camp, they were vandalizing the place, breaking the silence of this calm atmosphere.

Clare was shocked to know her spot was being ruined by those grown teenagers. Anger soon quickly took over her head, and she jumped out in the middle of the group.

"Hey! What are you all doing!" 

everyone stopped their activities, looking at her mockingly, one of the boys stood up to her, staring her down with those disgusting eyes. By now Clare realized she made a mistake. Jame standing behind her, looking at the people, his system scanning the surroundings, about 10 guys, mostly having pocket weapons.

"What kind of dweeb you telling us to do shorty...?" the person seems to be their leader, 

"Shorty?! You piece o-" Jame covered Clare's mouth before she said something offensive.

He smiled, "Clare, how about you let me handle this weak flesh?"

She seemed to understand him and backed down to let him do the work.

"Are you stupid? There are 10 of us, and only you, this ain't a movie kid, how about you go home with you're little girlfriend and leave this spot for our gang yeah?" he threw the cigar at Jame's face.

The smoke doesn't make him flinch, "Well you see, I can't do that, my admin wants anything, I have to obey, so how about you all leave before I break all 300 of your bones" his voice filled with danger, but his face said with a cocky tone.

The whole gang laughed at Jame. Underestimated him, they didn't know they were about to face a thing that went over their imagination.

The first guy in front of him punched Jame with his bare hand, a hard Cling upon the impact can be heard, and after that were painful sounds from that guy. Jame headbutted their leader, and the whole gang, like hungry piranhas, dived at him, using their metal blunt weapons, hitting him. The baton hit his back, and he gave back an elbow back strike knocking them back a few meters, another guy stabbed him, the knife instantly snapped in half and he ate his foot right on his face. Jame even knocked three guys out with an arm swing. The sounds of metal hitting and grunting casually go on, until he finally beats up the last guy. 

Jame turned around to see Clare, by his mistake, let one of the guys hostage her. The guy pointed a knife at her neck and covered her mouth.

"Hey! You better stand the frick down yeah?! Or I'm killing this betch!" 

threatened, a nd his administrator is in danger. His system once again warned him.

Don't have any choice, he pointed his index finger at the thug, the particles reshaped his finger into a small bullet, and it immediately fired at the head of that guy. The rubber bullet with high velocity instantly made him blacked out. 

"Wow thanks.... that was intense"

"no problem-"

the gun cocked, it raised to Jame's head, a loud bang went up, he turned back just about the bullet exit the barrel, it slid through his face, Jame disarmed him, he crushed the gun by gripping it, then strike a kick right on the man between legs, making him squirming in pain.

Clare was shocked by how fast he could move. "Amazing, we should bail out of here, I think these guys got what they deserved"

"I hit them pretty hard. Let's get out of here"

just before they go, something has been shot down from the sky, it hits, the ground near the small river, and the impact shockwave blasted Jame and Clare, down to the nearby bushes. 

"What the hell was that..." She gets herself back up but gets dragged down to hide by Jame. 

"Shh.."

the two look at the dropped-down thin, it was a metal drop pod, and beneath it was a corpse it crushed. The heavy plate installed detected living. Switched out the side guns. It shredded through the forest, ending the lives of 9 other people.

Jame covered Clare with two of his dark matter claws. The pod blasted the plates from all sides. A core with a humanoid step out, on its chest has its designated name and series design. 

"Hunter model.... probably scouting...."

"Oh right, I forgot that there is someone still looking for us...."

"Stay here Clare, I'll do it quickly"

the oversized claws covered Clare, and Jame ready to kill for real. He created a jammer device, blocking any signal coming or being transferred away. 

He leaps over the bushes, and charges at the core, and it quickly spots him.

The core wasn't ordinary, it reversed the gravitation pull around itself, Jame's bullet all ricocheted upon getting too close. It shoved a laser blaster right on his chest, the supper heated shots fried the outer layer of his body, but he isn't something that can't be underestimated, he quickly retaliated, using his power.

"Absolute Solver" [system: switching to Combat mode]

two metal armor, on the sides of his face, switched in, the battle mask covered his head from below, but not his face, the shield on his face with gaps to look through like a knight helmet. The system is fully engaged, the visor on, weapon engaged.

He took a quick push to bend the barrel of the gun, and then his right hand reconstructed the interior, making a heated arm blade. He slashed the core, making it stubble.

It fights back by attacking him with multi-powerful charged punches. 

"so you can absorb impact" [Laser: ready] Jame's face shield changed its color due to temperature changes. He launched the Laser and blasted it from his mask. The core was forced to dodge and approach him. But that is its mistake.

Jame just needs to wait, he uses Absolute Solver, changing the kinetic field, so he can make the Core slowed down, its damage absorbs being useless. And just by that victory landed on his hand. He ripped its arms out, making it screech in pain, and finally finished it by slicing the core in two.

He crushed its core in hand. Collected the needed assimilated matter.

His claws finally let Clare out of cover, she looks at the destruction, seeing Jame, his hands, looking at his smoking combat mask. 

"This is...."

"too much?"

"I was saying crazy on how you can do such things"

he giggles dangerously, his mask opens "Remember, you are my administrator"