Chairman Bana was happily staring at his new machine, a conveyor belt, running through the whole factory. Poppi, an artificial blade was lying on the ground, deactivated and without any sign of movement.
“And Muimui is sure this is going to work?”
“Yes, very sure, thanks to artificial blade of Tora”, Muimui said, hopping up and down.
“Good! Very good! Now we can make infinite blades with the people of Mor Ardain.”

“Rex Rex, we have to hurry!”, Tora screamed while Rex tried to break down the door of the old factory they visited once before. Nia, Dromarch and Mythra were there too, just shaking their heads.
“I can’t believe he would be stupid enough to start again at the same spot”, Nia said.
“Done!”, said Rex and the metallic door fell to the ground.
“We need to be careful, he might have a new powerful weapon.”, Dromarch mumbled.
“You mean, an even bigger robot?”, Nia giggled.
“Remember, we’re not outside, I can’t use my full powers in here”, Mythra said.

The group stopped in front of a conveyor belt.
“This is new!”, Rex said.
“Yah! But it’s not moving”, Nia said.
“Look there! Poppi!”, Tora screamed pointing at the artificial blade lying in the middle of the room.
“Let’s go!”, Rex said, jumping on the conveyor belt, that was running along between them and Poppi.

“Humanoid detected”
“Wait? What?!”
Suddenly the conveyor belt started and Rex lost his balance and fell down.
“That idiot!”, Nia said, shaking her head.
“Rex, jump of that thing!”, Mythra shouted, while trying to follow it.
“It’s not… that easy, this thing is moving too fast.”, Rex said rolling around.
“Rex! Hurry, there is a weird machine there!”, Mythra screamed, but it was to late. The machine shut its door with Rex in it.
“What’s happening to Rex Rex, we have to get him out!”, Tora said panicking.
“Just use brute …”
“Beginning Procedure”
“No! Not beginning anything!”, Nya screamed, attacking the door with her weapons.
“Procedure complete!”
“Oh, wait, let’s just get him on the other side, he might be coming out.”, Mythra said.

Just as they said, Rex stumbled out of the machine a few seconds later and Mythra got him of the conveyor belt and placed him next to it.
“Sorry guys, I should’ve been more careful…”, Rex said, kneeling on the ground.
“Uhm… Rex?”
“Wha’ is it?”
“Your legs”

Rex looked down on himself and couldn’t believe what he saw. His leg armor had vanished and been replaced with robotic legs.

“WHAT IS THIS?!”, he screamed.
“Tora knows these, these are Poppis legs!”
“POPPIS?!”
“Yes yes, Tora built them himself, very strong legs!”
“I don’t care! How do I reverse this?!”
Tora approached Rex’ legs, punched against them and a metallic “cling” could be heard.
“This is solid metal, nothing else underneath.”, Tora said.
“Guys… this can’t be true… help me!”
Nia just looked confused.
“If we knew what to do, we would’ve told ya!”

Mythra had an empathetic expression for a change.
“Maybe it isn’t so bad, I meanit doesn’t really change that much.”
“Can you move them freely?”, Nia asked.
Rex made a few steps on the spot, jumped up multiple times and sighed.
“Well, yeah… but they are really heavy. I don’t think I can go salvaging like this, maybe if I train enough…”
“And if something is broken, you can come to Tora! Rex Rex will even get friendship discound!”
“I have to pay? For real?!”
“I’m sorry, I have to interrupt you, but we should get Poppi and find Bana”
“Oh dang! You’re right Dromarch!”, Nia said.
“Well, we should stay away from that conveyor belt… maybe there is a way around.”

They started running along the conveyor belt, after turning a corner, they saw themselves confronted with a group of four Tirkin.
“Let’s show’em a thing or three”, Rex shouted while grabbing his sword. They split the enemies up into two groups, two Tirkin for Rex and Mythra and two for Nia and Dromarch.
First, the battle went smoothly, but Rex still had problems moving his new legs, so one of the Tirkin started running towards Tora.
“No! You fight me!”
Rex jumped in front of Tora with an insane speed and shielded him with his sword. He wondered for a second how he moved so fast and why there was a sudden urge to protect Tora. But he shaked that feeling away, Tora had no blade right now and was nearly useless, so someone had to protect him.

After a few hits, all the Tirkin were laying on the ground.
“Thanks for saving Tora. Rex Rex moved really fast!”
“Yeah, it was really hard to move with these legs, but then suddenly it just worked.”
“They might come in handy, if they give you superpowers like that”, Nia said.
“It’s actually not that bad.”, Rex said with a grin on his face.
“Hey guys… there is a terminal there!”, Mythra said.
“Whoa Mythra, this might deactivate the conveyor belt, you know how it works?”, Nia asked.
“No… but Tora might.”
Tora approached the terminal, clicked a few buttons and turned around.
“This controls crane over there!”
“Ah, damn”, Nia said.
“Maybe Tora can use crane to bring us to Poppi”
“Not a bad idea.”, Mythra said.
“Okay, Tora will try!”
Tora pushed a few buttons again and the crane started turning around and stopped with the grab above them.
“This is claw grab…. Try holding onto it, after I bring it down.”
…
…
“… It not working”
“Wha?” Nia asked.
“Tora doesn’t know, but grab won’t come down.”
“Damn it! Come down you stupid thing.”, Nia said, throwing a rock at it.
“Stop Milady, you don’t…”, Dromarch started.
“Humanoid detected”
Suddenly, the crane came down and grabbed Nia.
“Wha?! No, Stop it Tora!”, She screamed while being lifted.
“Tora is trying, crane doesn’t react!”
“Quick, try to get her down.”
“I swear, if you start throwing rocks, you will regret that!”, Nia shouted angrily
The crane started turning away and stopped above a similar machine as the one Rex was in.
“Nonono, I don’t want robot-legs! Get me out of here guys!”
“Ah damn, we can’t get up there… I wish Poppi wasn’t… wait, maybe I can use her weird rocket shoe Powers!”
One the top of the machine, the hatch opened up.
“Come on, come on!”, Rex said, fiddling with his legs and jumping on the spot.
“click”
He, did something with the belt buckle.
“poof”
Suddenly he felt himself ascending and could see the flames coming out of his feet. He tried to ignore weird balloony feeling in his pants.
“Yeeeaah! It’s workin’!”
Rex started boosting himself into the direction of Nia, but instead of grabbing her, he bumped right into the crane… as a result Nia fell down into the machine.
“Yoou idioooot”
“Miladyy!”
Rex was out of control and bounced back and forth in the air until he flew against the wall and met the ground just next to his friends.
“Beginning Procedure”
“R-Rex? Are you alright?”, Mythra asked
“Auugh… damn… I was so close.”

“Listen Rex, it seems like whatever happened to you didn’t completely stop.”
“We have to get her out… wait what do you mean?”
“Look down.”
Looking down, he saw what that “poof” was. His pants changed and they looked nearly identical to Poppi’s, except these had blue parts in them.
“You’re kidding me…”
Rex began pulling and tearing on the pants but they didn’t move an inch.
“Rex Rex might not want to hear, but these are Poppi-Pants! They are attached to Poppis body and filled with fuel for flying mode!... The fabric part is just outer layer to make Poppi look….”
“Don’t even say it!”, Rex said annoyed.
“It’s not that bad”, Mythra said.
“I’m wearing bloomers… I mean, they aren’t super-girly, but they are clearly girls clothes.”

“At least you can fly now”
“Just gr…”
“Procedure complete!”

“Milady!!”, Dromarch screamed and ran to the door.
Angrily Nia stomped out of the machine.
“Okay guys, anything changed?”
“Uhm… Nia, if something changed, we couldn’t see… oh wait, your neck!”
Nia grabbed her neck and fumbled with the bow, that now rested there.
“It looks like you’re wearing a blouse too.” Mythra said.
“This is really bad… but not as bad as girly-pants right here”
“Hey, cut it out, Nia!”
“Serves you right for doing this to me!”

“Okay, now what?”, asked Rex.
“The crane was just something like a shortcut, we can still run through this conveyor belt labyrinth”
“I didn’t mean that! What if we change further?”, Rex shouted.
“Tora believes you just have to stop using Poppi-powers.”
“I don’t even want these Poppi-Powers, but wearing these pants and not even having any benefits?”
“Stop that whining and let’s save Poppi so we can get outta here”, Nia said.

With that, the group continued their way, just to run into another group of Four Tirkin.
“Why do they even hire these guys, again and again?”, Nia asked while pulling her weapons.
“Tora, ready to go!”, Rex shouted and pulled out his sword.
“Mehmeh?”
 They used the same strategy as last time but this time, they encountered more problems.
The attacks of Mythras blade seemed to lose their strength. Additionally he seemed to be mostly blocking attacks with it, instead of swinging it.
“Rex, what’s wrong?!”, Mythra shouted.
“I don’t know, it just doesn’t work!”
“Just swing the sword”
“Oh! Many thanks! You’re right!”
But even though he now knew, what he was doing wrong, his attacks seemed to work even worse. It were just frantic swings without any sort of strategy.

Nia on the other side had similar problems, her healing spells just wouldn’t work the way she wanted to. She could still beat the Tirkin up, but if she couldn’t heal injuries, she couldn’t heal Tora if he would get hurt. Why was she thinking about him? She didn’t know, but she knew, he needed to be protected without his blade, and looked back if he was okay.

Suddenly, the Tirkin ran past Rex and jumped at Tora. This time, Rex used his boosters, to get in between them and Tora.
“I will protect Mas… Tora!”, he screamed and fended of one of them with his sword. The other one, tried to stab Tora when Nia arrived.

“What are you doing?! You have to protect him!”, she shouted angry.
Rex looked back, the two Tirkin Nia was fighting were now rushing to Tora.

“Same for you!”, he said, ran past Tora and began blocking the attacks.
“Rex! Stop blocking with that sword! Attack!!”, Mythra shouted.
“Oh, right!”, with that, he let the sword fall down and materialized a drill shield in his right hand, which became fully metallic.
“How did he… no wait, Rex! These are Poppis powers!”
“NOPONIC STORM”, he screamed and created a whirlwind hurling the Tirkin away. The same moment his chest started to become metallic too from the belt upwards, his jacket became loose and poofed out into a blue cape. After defeating the Tirkin with his new weapon, he turned around to see how Nia was doing, just to see, that she already finished her enemies and was standing with everyone, looking at Rex with a weird expression.

“Rex! You’re…”, Mythra began.
“So these are the effects…”, Nia said, breathing heavily.
“I am so sorry”, Rex said.
“You just fought like Poppi and look at you, you are nearly identical to her now.”
“I couldn’t stop it, I had to protect Mast… Tora”
“Did you nearly say Master-Pon? It seems, this is something far more serious, than we thought. Could it be, that this is changing his behavior?”, Dromarch said.
“Oh shoot, does that mean… Damn, I think I really wanted to protect Tora too in that fight.”
“Am I really acting weird?”, Rex asked.
“Did you even notice how you look?”
Rex looked down on himself… well there wasn’t much of “him” left, except for his left arm and his head. Instead he wore a blue cape, similar to Poppis red one and had a Poppy-Flower on his metallic chest.
“I really changed a lot.”, he said.
“Yes… and we can’t go on like this, we have to retreat and think about our options… we should’ve taken Morag with us”, Mythra said.
“Butbut… what about Poppi?!”
“I’m with Mythra on this, I don’t really wanna end up as a Poppi clone”

 “But Tora will be sad, if we don’t save Poppi”, Rex said.
“We will save her, but we can’t go on like this… Tora can’t fight, you’re on the verge of becoming Poppi yourself and Nia might be too.”, Mythra said.
“We can make a plan about this and get someone to assist us.” Dromarch said.
“But then… then maybe too late…”, Tora said with his head hanging down.
“No!”, said Tora, “I will save Poppi, even without friends help.”
With that, Tora started wobbling away.
Rex looked at his friends, then to Tora, then back to his friends again.
“No Rex, don’t do this.”, Mythra said.
“Sorry…”, he said and turned around and followed Tora.
“Master… uh… Tora, wait!”
Tora turned around, looked up at Rex and began tearing up.
“Rex Rex! You will really help Tora?”
“Mas… ugh…. I mean… Tora, I will help you, yes”
“But… Rex Rex really should stay with friends… otherwise Rex Rex might become even more like Poppi.”
“No, Rex will help Tora… I’ve made up my mind!”

“Did he really just leave?”, Nia asked.
“Yes… And I’m not sure if it was Poppi devotion to Tora or just Rex trying to save everyone”, Mythra said.
“What do we do now?”
Then, Mythra swapped with Pyra.
“I will follow them”, she said, “Maybe I can talk some sense into them”
“I will make sure Milady is alright, go and get Rex and Tora back”, Dromarch said.

“Hey guys! Wait!”, came a voice behind Tora and Rex.
“Master-Pon! See! Pyra is joining us!”, Pyra could hear Rex say… his voice was still male, but the way he said it was just like Poppi.
“Uh, lookie lookie! You really want to help Tora too?”
“You’re calling him… nevermind…
are you sure you don’t want to reconsider? Look how far Rex is gone already.”
“I’m not gone, I’m right here”, he said waddling his arms in surprise.
“See, he’s moving like Poppi already… you can’t do this to him.”
“Tora knows… but Tora can’t leave Poppi alone and Rex won’t leave, even if I tell him.”
“That’s right! I will stay with Master Pon!”
“Rex, do you even realize what’s happening any more?“
“Yes, my sister needs help and friends always help.”
“Sister?!”
“Yes, I know it is because of the things happening, but I feel like we have this really close bond”
“Rex…”, Pyra cried.
“Please, help us…”
“I… Let me get her, I will do it, but you don’t go any further!”, Pyra said.
“T…Tora not sure…. Yes, maybe that best solution”
“But I want…!”
“No, you stay!”, Pyra nearly shouted and ran off.

Nia on the other hand, sat there waiting with Dromarch.
“You think they are okay?”, she asked.
“Absolutely, Rex withstood every sort of danger up until now, he will also get through this.”
“Do you think, Tora is okay too?”, she then gasped and clapped there hands on her mouth.
“You acquired some sort of devotion to him too, right?”
“N-no! I just care for my friends! What if they die? What will become of me then?”
“Milady, don’t think like that.”
“And… and Tora, I could be there protecting him, instead I’m just sitting around.”
“You know what will happen, when you activate any sort of powers.”
“Augh… yes… I can’t believe I’m suddenly all about protecting him… I mean, was I like this before, would I have protected Tora, if I wasn’t forcibly changed like this?”
“Milady, please… don’t worry for now. You would’ve helped him of course.”
“Okay, what if I followed them?”
“I will not allow that, Milady.”
“But what if, would I really change? Can it really change the mind? I mean, I can’t just change, I’m a flesh eater, remember?”
“I don’t know about this technology, but it is really dangerous.”
“Dangerous? All I have is this bow on my neck, nothin’ else… I’m fine!... It… It’s not like I have to protect Tora.”
“Pyra and Rex are there protecting him, there is nothing to worry about.”
“But… but I do! I have to be there, how bad could it be, just trust me.”
“You could be changed to be just like poppi… I don’t know how much, but I heard Rex almost saying ‘Master Pon’ multiple times.”
“Yeah, I noticed that too, but I would never call him Master Pon.”
MASTER PON… that doesn’t sound so bad
“We can’t know about all the effects for sure, let us just wait for them to return.”
“Augh Dromarch, you’re right, as always… Rex and Pyra will make sure that Tora…”
MASTER PON
“…that To…”
MASTER PON IS IN DANGER
“…that Master-P… N-no… wait”
PROTECT MASTER PON
“Milady, are you alright”
“D-dromarch, I think… It really continues working somehow…”
“What?”
“I- I have to protect… Ma-master Pon!”, with that, part of her outfit popped open to reveal big breasts, clad in a frilly blouse.
“Oh no, Milady…” wimmered Dromarch.

While Nia was running through the factory, searching for Tora with Dromarch rushing after her, Rex and Tora were sitting around and waiting for Pyra to come back.

“Will Pyra really get Poppi out?”, Tora asked nobody in particular.
“Don’t worry, Master-Pon, Pyra is really strong”
“Meh… Tora knows, but…”
Rex came closer to Tora and started to pet him.
“Mehmeh! What is Rex Rex doing?!”
“Master-Pon seemed so sad”, Rex said in a sympathetic way.
“But… this is… oh yes, right there…”
Tora visibly began to enjoy the petting.
“Oh! Fur of Master-Pon is ruffled, engage comb protocol”
“That sounds perfect… no, wait…
Rex Rex really is turning into Poppi, right?”
But Rex ignored the question and started combing Tora.

“Milady! Please resist!”
“But Master-Pon might be in danger! Master-Pon!! Where are you?!”, Nia shouted.
“Nia and Dromarch located”, Rex said.
“What? Tora thought they were….”
Nia ran towards them and stopped right in front of Tora and Dromarch followed shortly after.
“Master-Pon, are you alright?”, she asked.
“Tora is…”, Tora stopped his sentence looking at Nia and started blushing bright red.

Nia looked down on herself and found a huge part of her outfit transformed into Poppis maid outfit and began to blush too.
“Oh, you little…!”, Nia slammed her fist into Tora and send him flying against the next wall.
“Master-Pon!”, Rex said rushing to Tora.
“It is good to see, you are still yourself milady”
“Not as much as I would like, I can’t help but worry about Master-Pon even though I was the one who punched him…”
“Meh… Nia still very brutal”, Tora mumbled wobbling back to them with Rex.
“Where is Pyra?”
“Pyra is rescuing Poppi”
“All by herself, that might be dangerous!”, Dromarch said.
“Meh meh…. Yes…. But Rex Rex condition got worse.”
 “I…I am in good condition… I can suppress it”
“I changed too, without fighting or anything… If this goes on like this, Rex and me would’ve been Poppi clones either way.”
“But Milady, I really thing we should…”
“No Dromarch… This factory did something to us and our best solution would probably be to find Bana and force it out of him how to reverse these effects.
And we have to save sister!”
“Sister?”, Dromarch asked.
“Did I really…. Well I can’t deny that I think of Poppi as my sister…”
“So, friends will help Poppi?”
“I wouldn’t suggest something like this, but regrettably it seems to be the best solution.”, Dromarch said in a defeated tone.
“Rex, are you fine with that too? “
“I… yes….”
“Good, then let’s go”
“Tora ready!”
With that, they were off searching for Pyra and Poppi. What nobody could see, Rex was struggling with his new mindset.
It was like some big red glowing letters were in front of his eyes all the time saying:
Priority No. 1: Protect Master-Pon
Priority No. 2: Save Sister
You have to stay focused Rex… Master-Pon is really important, look out for potential enemies… But is that part of my original protocol?
It must be, Master-Pon has and will always be priority no. 1, I’m his blade after all… A weird thought, I can’t progress why… Ah yes, I am an artificial blade.

“Rex? Are you alright?”, Nia asked.
“Uh… yes, I am just fine.”
“I really can’t stop thinking about… Master-Pon… I can’t even believe I can only think of him in a positive way.
“It is the same for me, Master-Pon is really cool!”
“I don’t know how I never noticed, but he really is. That is why we have to protect him, right?”
Rex stared at her with a lifeless expression and suddenly metal started sprouting out of his head. Two pieces covered his ears while the others seemed to form pigtails just like Poppi.
After that, life seemed to return to him.
“R-rex! You…”
Nia couldn’t complete her sentence, as they were again attacked by Tirkin.

“How much more are there?”
“Milady, can you still fight?”, Dromarch asked.
“I… I think so…”
Rex rushed to Toras side and grabbed his shield
“Defense Protocol Activated! Master-Pon, awaiting orders!”
“Meh?!”
But without any time to think about it further, Rex threw his shield to Tora and he began fighting the Tirkin just as he would’ve done with Poppi.
So much, that after the Tirkin were defeated, Tora had completely forgotten he fought with Rex instead of Poppi.

Nia on the other hand was struggling. She couldn’t really fight with her usual weapons anymore.
“Milady, this is getting too much for us”
Nia still tried fending two Tirkins off with her weapons, but it looked more like uncoordinated swinging
Suddenly Tora and Rex rushed past her and began fighting the Tirkin.
“Master-Pon!”, Nia shouted.
“Poppi, all power to weapon systems!”
“Understood!”, Rex shouted in an unusual high voice.
“Roger roger, Master-Pon”, Nia said at the same time and materialized missile launchers in each of her hands.
With Rex drilling and Nia shooting missiles from behind, the Tirkin had not even the glimpse of hope of winning and were lying on the ground within seconds. As Nia was shooting, the rest of her outfit was falling apart and uncovered metallic legs.
“Milady!”, Dromarch shouted but was ignored, as Nia rushed to Toras side.
“Master-Pon, are you alright?”
“Meh… Oh no, Tora forgot in the heat of battle.”
“Ba-ba-baaaaa here we go!”, Rex cheered in his high voice and turned to face the others.
“R-rex rex?”
“Oh dear, he looks fully robotic now.”

“Sister, are you alright?!”, Nia asked worried
“Yes, Poppi R operating at maximum efficiency!”
“Poppi R?!” Tora and Dromarch shouted in unison?
“Poppi is so sorry… Poppi still knows she has changed. It is very hard to fetch memory data from before”
“Memory data of sister got overwritten a few seconds ago… so sister was different before like me?”, Nia asked.
“Oh Milady, you have changed a lot too…”
 “I’m sorry, it might be a result of me fighting back… but protecting Master-Pon has first priority”
“Agreed”, Rex said.
“Friends really are turning into Poppi…”
“Milady, please try to…”
“Dromarch?”, Nia asked.
“M-milady, It…. Seems like you are not a driver anymore… I’m sorry.”, Dromarch said, as light surrounded him
“No! Dromarch!”, Nia shouted, trying to grab him but could only grab the crystal core that has been left.
“Oh no, really bad…. Tora doesn’t know what to do.”
“Dromarch… why… why did this have to happen.”
“Don’t be sad, sister. Friends live on in crystal cores!”
“Yes, but he has forgotten about me, about all the things we did together, about… everything”
“Nia…”, Tora said.
Nia looked down on herself
“It is all because I am an artificial blade. We can’t have blades of our own…”
“Poppi tried to release a crystal core too, but it had no effect”
“Oh no, so what about Pyra?!” Tora asked.
“Aegis can exist by herself”, Rex said
Tora let out his breath in relief
“So, Toras proposal: Waiting for Pyra!”
“What? No, we have to help her save sister!”, Nia almost shouted.
“You are sure you don’t need more time because of Dromarch”
“That name seems familiar, is it blade inside of this core crystal?”
“Yes, your blade, you remember?”
“I am artificial blade, why would I have blade of my own?”
Tora now noticed the metallic shimmer of Nias hair and her voice that was higher than before.
“Oh no, Nia is almost fully Poppified too.”

“So that’s where the irregularities in my data come from?”
“Meh! Hold on them, remember yourself! Tell Tora, who are you?”
“Nia, maidenly artificial blade with mission of serving and protecting Master-Pon”
“Poppi wishes to be maidenly too someday with a new outfit like that”
“This Is really cute design, created by Master-Pon. Master-Pon has best fashion tastes”
“You… like it? Tora thought you hated outfit?! You really can’t stop changes…”
“Searching in memory data… Found memories from before change…. Reconstruction starting”
“Meh?”
“Wha…? Tora? I… I’m back? How did you do that?”
“Meh?! Tora didn’t do anything, Tora just commented on your outfit”
“My outfit?”
Nia looked down on herself.
“Wh…why am I still like this?!”
“It only restored mind, Tora doesn’t know”
“Sister is acting weird”, Rex said
“Oh, you’re here too, sis!”
“You don’t remember? This is Rex!”, Tora said.
“W-who is Rex?”
“Meh… seems you really have overwritten everything about him”
“Oh no… you mean, sister isn’t really my sister?”
“Y-yes”
“Please, you must help me turn back! I don’t want to be stuck with these metallic legs”
“The legs are really cool, sister!”, Rex said.
“They are… manageable, but my cute dresses don’t show them off as well as my old legs”
“Your dresses?”
“Yeah, this one I’m wearing is my favourite”
“You didn’t wear dresses as long as we traveled, especially not Toras.”
“B-but I remember wearing it all my life”
“Meh… what is happening”
“TorRRrster-pOn, I… I know you designed these dresses for me… didn’t you… based on older sisters QT-Mode”
“They are… b-but Tora didn’t”
“Master-Pon! Why is this… I want to be your blade”
“Stop Nia, we try once more. Tell me who you are”
“I… I am Nia, Gormotti, I was a member of Torna and I am a flesheater.”
“Meh? You are flesheater?!”
“ Yes, sorry to tell you like this.”
“At least you somehow remember yourself…”

“Poppi tried looking for faulty memory data too, but there were no errors found. Memory completely functional from the second construction was completed”
“Meh?”, Tora again looked at Rex and he had no resemblance to the original Rex.
“Poppi R is copy model from older sister, built in this factory but retaining all the duties and the bond with Master-Pon”
“Rex Re…”


“GAAAAAH!... I am Nia! But… But I feel like protecting Master-Pon, I must, I am his blade! This is why I was built! Master-Pon!”
“Nia?”, Tora fearfully asked.
“Recreation of memory data stopped… erroneous data found and deleted”
“So, now you are both?”
“I’m sorry, Master Pon, I failed to restore my memories. Should I try again?”
“Yes, yes! If possible, try!”
“Searching in memory data… Found memories from before change…. Reconstruction starting”
“N-nia?”
“Oh, what happened?”
“Nia, you still there?”
“What, of course?”, Nia said falling back into her old voice.
“Meh?”
“I just realized, you are so cool, Master-Pon… I really want to have a bond with you as close as Poppi, so I just call you Master-Pon, just like her”
“But, Nia, you shouldn’t”
“You prefer Poppi so much, so… what if I just become Poppi, you will finally accept me as artificial blade?”
“I-is this really you talking, Nia?”
Nia looked down on herself and smiled
“I… I, really am Poppi already… Poppi knows, she wasn’t always like this. But Poppi is stronger like this, much stronger than… before? But what was there before?
“Meh?”

Nias eyes glossed over, and her appearance changed once more
“Recreation of memory data stopped… erroneous data found and deleted”
“Meh meh?! But she said…?”
“Poppi is sorry, Master-Pon, it seems, there is no data to be found before today. Poppi was built in here just today, so memory data from before that was the result of
an error and while trying to correct itself, it corrupted and got deleted.”