But who would've thought it would actually be possible?!
A while back—
There was the familiar hum. One that both terrified and relieved him.
Sid hadn't been powered down since he received the ability to move as he pleased. In the time since his repair, he had always been maintained while conscious. Awake. Mobile. As free as he never thought he could be.
Autonomous.
Yet apparently, that freedom was impossible to keep—not if the little master's next plan was to be done safely.
So Sid had to be turned "off." His synapse reactor had to be shut down because it was the only way to reconfigure his spiritual channels without risk.
And it was terrifying.
Sid, a respectable guardian mecha who once stood unshaken before battlefields, did not expect that what would finally make his soul tremble was the prospect of being reduced back into stillness. Reduced to merely existing.
