The rain served as a calming and serene setting in the large and usually bustling city. The sound of rain gently hitting your umbrella rung out as you walked along the sidewalk, taking a stroll through the rain for your own personal reasons. An odd sound could be heard, echoing just below the streets as you took a closer look. It was mechanical and frantic, bending down and reaching into the run off drain to the side of the street, you found a little...cyborg spider robot? It was covered in gunk and dirty rain water, but it squirmed and bent its limbs like a mechanical animal struggling, like it had a mind of its own...well, this little guy was definitely coming with you! For reasons only known to you. Unbeknownst to you...you weren't alone.

In new lair of the Spider Queen, Syntax had been hard at work, attempting to salvage any and all spider bots he could. Their terrifying encounter/loss with the Lady Bone Demon had caused them to relocate and find sanctuary further within the sewers of Megapolis. Attempting once more at their plans for world domination, his Queen had asked of him to salvage what he could, seeing how many bots they had functioning before they made any real plans. He sat in front of his large computer panels he built himself as he fiddled mindlessly with a screwdriver as a busted spider bot rested gently against his thigh. Almost all his status reports for his bots had come out offline, unsalvageable, or stuck in specific locations around the city that he, frankly, didn't want to retrieve at the moment...until a beeping noise caught his attention. Forgetting the broken spider bot on his leg, he moved closer to the panels, typing away until he pulled up a camera...spider bot #1699...online. He accessed the camera of the bot, finding...you, carrying the robot in their arms...interesting...