Toy threw up his hands.
"Oh no, there is no way I'm buying into this. I'm just going to turn you in and be done with it. After all, you brought this on yourself after killing the not-so-good doctor," he said exasperatedly.
"Shut up you," said Combat Toy as it rattled Zealstorm around some.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
"Buy into what?" The now annoyed android said with a glare at Combat, as she was shaken. "The information I have would seriously not be of any use to you whatsoever. You're inorganic."
Growling a little, she settled down for the long wait. "What a pain. Fleischman was already on the 'list.' Those ingrates should be thanking me."
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"Man, this trip seems like its taking three times as long," Toy muttered to himself.
Out loud, he said, "What list? You yourself said you've only been activated for a very short time. How could you have a list of anything?"
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
"Activated, yes. Aware, no." Zealstorm said with a monotone frown. "Weren't you listening? I may not have had the chip to act independantly, but I have been absorbing information for a very, very long time. The rest of my intelligence matrix was perfected...."
A sly grin of remembrance lit up Zealstorm's face.
"....Six years ago...." she said a little more quietly.
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Essex sat alone in her quarters. The Longbow still hadn't quite decided what to do with her, and she sighed. She wished she at least had her video disc so she could watch it again, but she had left it in the terminal room when the chaos had happened...
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"Ooooo, six years. So what if you're about ten times my age? And if I remember correctly, which I do, processing system were less advanced back then then they are now. So shush, the more intelligent android is not interested in your yappings any more," said Toy in a most condescending tone of voice.
If he was lucky, this would actually work and sooth his burning curiosity.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Zealstorm merely shook her head at this. It didn't matter to her, even as they approached Moon Base Beta.
As far as she knew or thought, she was a lone dissident among all these blindly loyal toys...
The stalker said nothing to Toy's condescension, seemingly not even bothered...but obligingly staying quiet.
Regardless, I killed Fleischman. At least getting this chip wasn't a total waste.
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Zealstorm eyed Toy with a little frown.
"Tch. As if I'm going to disclose it now. There's absolutely no point. If I tell you, you will turn me over to them. If I tell them, they'll have no reason to allow me to remain intact."
Turning back, Zealstorm looked up at the sky. "I doubt it would be of any use to you anyway."
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