NIER AUTOMATA 2B SWORD ANDROID

Holding 9S's corpse in her arms, 2B breaks down, crying that her time with 9S always ends like this.

However, with no other option and the risk it poses to the Bunker, she gives in and strangles 9S to death. 2B protests, pointing out that although it's true, it comes at the cost of his personality and memories.

Seeing no other choice as he is corrupted, 9S asks 2B to kill him out of mercy, reassuring her that his back up data at the Bunker can always be uploaded into a new body again. The battle is long and arduous, but 2B is finally able to stop the rampaging machines and kill Eve with a final stab of her sword.Īt the end of Route A, 9S's body has become corrupted by the machine's logic virus while attempting to disconnect Eve from the network. After 9S arrives in a flight unit to help dispatch a giant machine, 2B chases down Eve, the cause of the machine's behaviour from his grief for Adam. Upon returning to the Resistance Camp however, the machines in the area have gone berserk and begun eating the Resistance members. With 9S' help hacking into other machines from the Bunker, 2B is able to escape. It quickly becomes apparent that the machines there have become a cult and they turn aggressive on 2B and each other. She learns of another group of machines disconnected from the network were open to discussing a treaty and she travels with Pascal to the Abandoned Factory to meet them. She frees 9S, carrying him out of the collapsing city with a promise to send him home.Īfter having 9S' body sent back to the Bunker, 2B meets with Pascal to see if there have been any other strange trends among the machines. In the ensuing battle, she does, leaving Adam to die in a pool of his own blood. Seeing this sends 2B into a rage, vowing to kill her machine adversary. He also reveals that he has captured 9S, impaling him in a manner similar to crucifixion. Adam lies in wait for her, explaining that he created the city in his attempts to understand humans. She searches for him desperately and her search eventually leads her to the Copied City. Later, during an operation against the titanic machine Grun, 9S is blasted away by the ensuing explosion and separated from 2B.

NIER AUTOMATA 2B SWORD ANDROID

They also encounter Pascal, a pacifistic machine who leads a village of equally minded machine lifeforms, and A2, a deserter android who used to be a part of YoRHa many years ago. During their operations on the surface, 2B and 9S witness the birth of and fight Adam and Eve, two humanoid machines who were created by the machine network with the intent of discovering the secrets of humanity. Seeing this visibly disturbs 2B, despite 9S' insistence that the machines don't have actual emotions. During their endeavors, 2B and 9S notice how many of their machine lifeform enemies are docile, with some having begun to take on human traits. Realizing that 9S has forgotten her yet again, 2B clenches her fist in frustration.Īfter having her boot sequence taken care of by 9S, the pair are sent to Earth in order to provide reconnaissance information and establish contact with the Resistance planetside. However, as there wasn't enough bandwidth and time, 9S only managed to send 2B's memories with his only intact up to the point of before meeting her. It is revealed that after detonating their black boxes, 2B's data was uploaded back to the Bunker and transferred to a new body, ensuring her survival. Faced with overwhelming odds, the pair are forced to detonate their black boxes in order to destroy the Goliaths. After the target is destroyed, 2B and 9S reunite, only for three more Engels machines to appear and attack them. 9S implores her to leave him to finish the mission and 2B hesitantly complies. After 2B makes her way to the top the briefly disabled Goliath, she finds a mortally wounded 9S and is briefly overcome with emotion in an attempt to save him. A fight ensues and 9S is severely damaged in the process. The pair explore the factory and are unable to find their target until it comes to life on the outskirts of the building. After becoming the only survivor of the assault, she meets up with her assigned Scanner, 9S. 2B, along with a squadron of other YoRHa units, is sent to the Abandoned Factory to eliminate a Goliath-class target.

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