Yanking them up to their feet was easy for me. Both of them were pouting. I just pulled them into a group hug. "Aww! Don't pout like that. You were having fun during the fight too!" I teased. They each took an arm and used it to break out of the grasp I was using. "Cut the shit! We knew you were holding back. We already know you have amazing regenerative abilities. You were not even trying!" 03 snapped. I looked at them. "Well, I beat you guys when we first met. I thought you knew that I was strong by now." 01 shook his head. "There has got to be a weakness we can exploit to take you down." he said. I looked at him in confusion. "It isn't a big deal. We're still friends and all. I won't get in your way, so you don't have to plot and scheme my downfall." I said with a nervous chuckle. 03 shook his head. "Brianne. We have to. You are from a rival faction. Eventually, we are going to have to fight it out. Even if we took out all the Advocates, the Researcher faction would still need to submit to us." he said. 01 nodded. "When that happens, we want to keep you. We have to learn now how to stop you."
Snickering to myself was all I could do. 03 asked about all the nanites on the floor. I told them about the function that AEP and PEA units shared. They looked interested in what I was saying. "Oh. We do that too. But the nanites they make are white like human semen." 03 said. 01 looked closer. "It looks like your PEA units are all further along than ours." I just shrugged. Looking at them, I said "Aside from sparring with me, why are you here? Your leader doesn't seem like the type to give you lots of time off." They looked away from me. I sighed and said "If there is something going on, we can work it out together. You know that I care about you guys." 03 said "We have to eliminate a target that will piss you off." I raised an eyebrow. "Who is it?" I asked. "We have to get rid of Syrios. He is a human that is blabbing about the Conqueror clans all over the internet." "Can't I just tell him to stop as his boss?" I proposed. 01 shook his head. "Nope. He gave a big leak on the mission target of Void Clan recently. Now they want him dead." I was not letting him die here. "What if he did a job for you!?" I asked.
They let me continue talking. "If he worked on tasks for you, that would be better than just killing him. Can you at least ask?" I asked him. They frowned. "You know that we can't use your lab to ask. It's a different hub." 01 said. I looked at 03. He just shrugged at him. I frowned and said "No. I'm not letting you kill Syrios. Tell them that he's already dead or something." They looked at me as if I was insane. I pulled out my phone and called him. He picked up the phone. "Hello? What's up. We're about to break for the day." he said. "01 and 03 are in the clan building. You really fucked up with that last Void Clan operation. They got a mission to kill you. You can't leave the building. I think you should get dead." There was a pause on the phone. "What the hell? 'Get dead'? What does that mean?" he demanded. 01 and 03 were annoyed and tried to grab my phone. I swatted them away. "Can you fake your death and lie low a bit? I'm friends with 01 and 03. That's why they came and told me." "Well... fuck!" he said finally. We waited. "There... a spontaneous heart attack. I'm dead. Local hospital has it."
