I got to talking with Exobiota over the last week, and decided to do some digging in their gallery. The piece, 'MUTE 11246-10' definitely stuck out to me as super awesome!

So, in talking with Exobiota, here on FA as http://www.furaffinity.net/user/cr0ss0v3r/ I decided to do a vaeu version of Mute http://www.furaffinity.net/view/26789315/

Visually, it is still not quite the direction I want to go with my art junk, but it was really fun to do, none the less.

The both of us decided that it would be cool for me to simply add this vaeubot to the vaeuverse I am slowly building. So here it is.

-UNIT 41-B ONLINE/No! wait, what!? This can't be... how?
-PREPARING MOTOR FUNCTION SUBROUTINES/ Who are you! Where am I!? why can't I see anyth-
-PHOTOVIDEO NODES ACTIVATING/... What the?... what???
--UNIT *DARREL* YOU HAVE BEEN DECEASED AND AWAITING RECOVERY AND REINITIALIZATION FOR 00020 DAYS//FULL COGNITIVE FUNCTION HAS BEEN RESTORED//PROCEED TO DOME-3 FOR DEBRIEFING//END RECORDED TRANSMISSION/... what in a thousand acres of burning sand is going on!?

... is... I... I'm dead? What was... the, the shuttle! The shuttle... Sands... I can't believe... Resonance deficiency sickness of all things. Go figure. I ran out of fuel, and... and drowned in my own damn blood. Great! That's just awesome! And now they went and put me in one of those... those things! I heard about it in the data feeds. Vaeu, brought back from the dead, and given a new body, a mechanical body... But they don't just do that for anyone... Do they? What is going on here?...

"I might be able to answer that." A familiar voice calls from the doorway.

Wow! What!? "Nell?! Sands! is that you?"

"yes, fool." she murmurs with a giggle meant only for my ears. "We thought we had lost you."

"But I'm dead. I was? dead? Why did you bring me back? Not that I'm ungrateful, but there has to be a-"

"The catch is, you have a month to get situated in your new body... and then you have to go on a bit of a trip for us..."

"Like, to a different continent? Different station?"

"No Darrel. You are going to leave orbit." she croaks, sadness splashed across her features.

"But... what!? We can't stray too far from the resonance! Everyone knows that!"

"you can."

"...Oh" is all I manage.

"You are the first successful attempt to make the transfer. The first living machine... sands I'm so sorry" she whispers the last bit, tears welling in her eyes. Tears that I know she won't let her superiors see.

I'm so confused... I don't even know where to start dealing with this wall of emotions coming at me. Shit...

At least I'm not dead. Or am I?