The AEP unit was spasming on the ground. I doubted that he could even fire back if he wanted to. "02." was what the clan leader as he stood over the dying cyborg. 02's twitching quieted some as he moved to look at his leader and murderer. "Thank you for the warning. I'm fine." he said as he lowered the gun for the finishing shot. 02 only smiled angelically. "Open your eyes, 02! Run! Get up! Please!!" I screamed at him. Anything for him to live. Brett was still holding me back. "Don't let him do this! It's not his fault!" I screamed. Tears were running down my face. 02 turned to me and blinked. "I... I see now." he said. He then back turned to leader and said "This is what a real friend is for." The leader's gun hand did not waver, even as the injured 02 got on his knees and then stumbled. He simply said "Brianne is begging you. Can you see me? You have to open your eyes." 02 tried again, but he fell to the ground. "Please." he said. "Please, what!?" the leader asked him. "Please stop it!!" I screamed. I could not get free. "Please... end it." he whispered, but all of us heard it. "Okay." the leader said.
3 bullets to the head put an end to it. 02 was gone and Brett finally let me go. I cried and cried for him. After 5 minutes, the Volition Clan leader dragged me to my feet. I refused to look at him. "Stop crying. He can't hear you anymore." he said. I shoved him away. "We could have done something! We could have saved him. Why did you do that!?" I demanded. He looked at me and smirked. "Yeah. I bet you want to see a nice world where things go exactly your way. He was fucking dead the second that ooze wormed into him. Even if he lived, he'd be marked as a deviant and exiled." I glared at him. "Then why not do that!? You only get one shot at life! It would have been better if he just wandered." I snapped. "It was you. You with the smugness. You with the subtlety. You got the whole gym in an uproar. You know, they aren't actually socialized for humans, so we keep them on a tight leash. But still, all those human dipshit humans that would have been snapped in half by 02 with a single word loved him. That gave me the idea." "Humans loved him, so you killed him!?" I yelled. It was cruel.
He rolled his eyes. "No, you braindead emotional fool! He was the best of us, so he got the full clan send off." the clan leader said angrily. I sobbed and rubbed my eyes with my hands. "I can't believe this was the only way. He just needed the time and help to get back in the right headspace." "Do you really want to risk everything we've all built on an AEP unit not in his right mind?" one of the sires said. I rubbed my wet hands on my pants. "There had to be another way here. There just... had to be." I said. "There you go. Using all of that human thinking. What was it? What was the better way!?" the leader snapped at me. I glared at him. "I can't think as fast as you. I don't know. But there... had to be something." I said after a minute without an answer. "See!? I was right to shoot him. All this useless fussing when you could be thinking on something much more important." he smirked. "Nothing, you cold sack of shit, is more important than 02 right now. He fucking mattered to me and to us!" I snapped at the leader. "And you want to delay us taking all our revenge for him dying." the leader said.
