They squared up and the AEP unit went hostile. Brett had no trouble using magic and his fists to beat the naive AEP unit within an inch of it's life. Once it begged out loud for mercy, Brett smirked. "I thought that letting all of us be here was a huge disgrace. What happened to that attitude?" he mocked. The leader of Erosion Clan walked over and said "You've had your fun. Let 08-002 go." She did not look like she was playing around. Brett got off of the bruised cyborg. He was pulled to his feet by the neck roughly. The leader glared and slapped him in the face. The sound echoed in the party hall. "How dare you lose to a human's petty tricks!? Especially in front of the coalition. You will be punished when we return." she berated him. 08-002 looked very ashamed. All this talk of conquering humans, and he had to lose publicly to one. It was also right in front of the whole coalition. That made it much worse for them. Things will be a bit tense between us going forward. I could just tell. The party continued for a bit longer. When we were done, we sent the representatives together to the Foundry.
Once they were out of sight, we were all dismissed. Radioactive and Heat Clan reconvened at the hospital in Dysthymia Row. This was where we were going to launch our faction specific XX-frame. The campus did not have a lot of space to hide such a thing. Dysthymia Row was lawless. Anybody who would accidently discover the hanger could easily disappear. Because of the blueprints and funding from PBJ Clan and Clan Re:Birth, things were also ready to go. 03-004 and Wade were selected to be the pilots. Because we needed to be very discreet, they would be coming along with us in PBJ Clan because we were even closer to the Foundry than the campus. It made sense to me. Wherever it actually was, they could go. Since this was a top secret that could not get out, they would split from us and go on their own. Only when they returned would PBJ Clan be able to send our own AEP units out for constructing our personal XX-frame. A month in-game passed before they came back with a big truck. Paul, Brett, Mason and I were human and barred. We were waiting at Coalition HQ.
To keep appearances, all the clans from the Researcher's faction did not bring their AEP units. That was just Radioactive Clan, Heat Clan, PBJ Clan and Clan Re:Birth. I was all fine with the plan. PBJ Clan and Clan Re:Birth were here because of our big contributions to the cause on behalf of Heat Clan. Wade and 03-004 were only about a week or so behind due to all the travelling needed to get there and get back. They would both be back soon with us. At least I hoped so. Radioactive Clan was to call us over to their hangar when they received the shipment. 03-005 and 09-006 were among them and made their way to us immediately. They looked like they did not have much of a good time. Apparently, they were pushed around by the others and made to do all of the grunt work. That was not very good. Rolling their eyes with total disinterest, the leaders of Heat Clan said "It's fine. You did your duty and that is all that matters here." It was all that they were able to say, being inhuman cyborgs. All of us were there when leaders of Impact Clan went to the middle and called us to attention.
