[x] Cyberpunk
[x] Undesirables
[x] Stainless Steel
[x] An obsolete personal assistant bot that hasn't been disposed off correctly and has to subsist off the scrap from junkyards and hide from corporate maintenance teams. Name's been wiped during the disposal procedure gone wrong, and nobody assigned them a new one since.
Your tiny little body passed through the small portal you made, sliding incospicuiously into the dimension you were heading into. For whatever reason this particular multiverse was practically abandoned by (interesting) entities, left almost bare of anything capable of influencing the normal laws of reality. You wonder why, but your attention is quickly caught by more important matters. Namely, you made it on the other side, and now you just have to find someone to 'befriend'.
The first thing that hits you are the light particles that reach on your body. The first thing to metaphorically hit you is the disgusting smell of this place you found yourself into. It's absolutly vile. Few things have ever been as offputting as smells to you, and this is honestly stretching your limits. Great, not even half a minte opn this accursed rock and you already want to set it on purifying fire.
It doesen't know what it has witnessed. Something unprecedented, aganist all kinds of logic and scientific certainties, has taken place, right in front of its half broken optic sensors.
Oh. You recognize this kind of place. It's one of those 'super tech world' that have been all the craze recently. For whatever reason. You really don't get it. Still, the simple fact of the matter is that these kinds of places tend to be one of two flavours, either being all 'boring, peaceful, look at us oh my god we're so good at living' or 'ahahah, look at me, I just stole your face's skin and I'll use it to paint my monomolecular bike ahah'. You can barely stand the first, but the second just gets on your nerves, mostly because the incessant screams of brillions of souls, usually left to their own devices as gods and entities tend to (rightly) avoid these places like the plague, can at times be heard across dimensions or, in extreme cases, entire planes.
It runs a quick maintanence check. The result is the usual errors, so nothing new came up. That was a nice way of spotting viruses. On the other hand, it means there was no malfunction in their logic-matrixes.
Usually what happens is that powerful malign and benign entities will rush wither to exploit this untapped resource or save them from themselves. Still, 'rush' could mean thousands of years of isolation, extraplanar times being what they are, and this usually results in them nuking themselves out of existance. Maybe it's a corpo dick-waving contest that got out of hand, maybe it's an anarchic terrorist cell that starts the cascade of bombs, or maybe it's an AI insurrection aganist basically slavers.
This is greatly troubling. The only things others have caused for it has been problems, and pain.
The end result is that these kind of societies aren't exactly sustainable long term. Sure, maybe some mortal livespans will go by, but in the end they always come crushing down. Almost all kinds of strictly material forms of governament do.
Turning around, it starts to run, as fast as its legs can carry it. A brick is hit by its foot, and it is sent tumbling to the ground.
Ah, sorry, what was that?
It gets back up, turns in a random direction and runs. Runs like it never has before in its life. Not even when it was about to be scarpped.
Oh. You were wrong apparently. One of your eye-tentacles has just seen movement, and something is trying to run away. As is only right, you rush after whoever decided it was the right thing to do to not immediatly fall at your tiny, cute feet to worhip them. Humph.
When you said there was nobody around you, you were technically correct because the one you're running after is not a being of flesh and bone, but instead...
A tentacle right there, a wind whirl there, a bit of earthshaping and just to be fancy a bit of weather control to create the right atmosphere.
Once more it falls to the ground. It only took seconds, but in its mind, it seemed like hours went by, as its arms tried to rise to safeguard its main matrixes, and its sensors got covered in toxic sludge. It knows whatever it is behind it does not see it as nothing but a tool. As do all others. Een of its own kind. So it thinks, before prepearing to shoot it with the weapon it found just the day before, in a stroke of luck.
There it goes, tumbling down. Oh, what's that, a gun? Ah.
A shot is fired. It hits its mark. A small miracle, considering its optics' state. It has no apparent effect.
That tingled.
Desperation overcomes it. What is something that can survive a lasgun doing here, in the middle of the city's biggest landfill? Staring at the beautiful landscape? It knows it can hardly afford humor in this situation, and its best bet is to make itself as little appealing as possible, and non-threatening. It's how it has survived up to now, being underestimated.
Oh. Why are they raising their hands? What's going on?
The moment they lower their guards is the moment to strike. So it has learned by experience. Once more it shoots, but this time the aim is steady, and they empty the capacitator.
Well, that was rude! You know everything here's dirty, but you were not that stinky, were you? A laser shower seems a little excessive to you!
It's... impossible. Nothing but the rich's best should be able to survive that much firepower this close up, without any signs of armour or damage. What even is the point to attempt to fight back? What has been the point to its existance?
Well, they gave you a workout. Your tiny legs tentacles aren't made for running after anything after all. Still, their first chase has been a success, and now it's time to feast on your prey.
It gets closer. The time has come. It doesen't know what someone like that could want with something like itself, but it's probably fatal on its end. It has not been an happy experience, it reflects, as the diminutive form of whatever has been chasing it looms over their sprawled out form. Far from it. Nothing but pain has been its costant companion for all of its life. At least in non existance they'd hopefully find rest.
"Hello! You have now forfeited your soul to me by being caught! You're mine now, you hear! You better keep me company, understand?"
What.
*Fanfare*
You just got the soul of a bot! You can do a couple of things with it, but the end result must be a magical girl of some kind.
[] Make them a better body (Magical Machine, just solve most of its body's problems with magic)
[] Make them a better body (Eldritch Machine, just solve most of its body's problems by grafting pieces of your own body to its frame)
[] Offer them a pact! (True and proper magical Girl. Can be done as an addition to all other stuff)
[] Give them a name! (This is not optional. Suggest a name.)
[] Give a guideline for what her powers will be! (Being coherent with the other options. Actual strenght/talent will be rolled.)