That was news to me. I turned to face him head on. "Don't you dare put this on me! You know just as well as anybody it was not my fault! This was all a setup from Void and Cold Clan." I snapped. He shook his head. "I am not talking about that. You got the whole gym in an uproar, Brianne. That was all your doing. You know full well that 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." I could not believe what I was hearing. "Humans loved him, so you're going to kill him!?" I yelled. It was too cruel. He rolled his eyes. "No, you braindead emotional fool! He is the best of us, so he gets the full clan send off." the clan leader said angrily. I sobbed and rubbed my eyes with my hands. "I can't believe this is the only way. He just needs 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.
02 was still here. He was looking around for threats that did not exist. "There has to be another way here. There just... has to be." I said. "There you go. Using all of that dumb 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... has to be something." I said after a minute without an answer. "See!? I am right to shoot him. All of 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 matters to me and to us!" I snapped at the leader. "And you want to delay us taking all of our revenge for him dying." the leader said. I stopped crying. "If you don't want him, give 02 to me. I'm taking him to my clan building." I said very firmly. "You really think we'll let you go?" he asked. I did not even give him a response to that question. I turned around and picked 02 up by the waist. He yelped as I carried him over my shoulder. "C'mon guys. We are leaving." I said to Brett. He just whistled.
We left through the lobby and out the front door. No one had the balls to try to stop us. 02 was pretty quiet. When we got him in the car, he pressed his hands against the window. "Are we in the car?" he asked. "Yep. Can you see yet?" Brett asked as he got in the driver's seat. I was riding shotgun. "I want to go back. I need.. to see those things again." he said. Brett and I shared a look. "We're going to the clan building. We want to fix you up." I said softly to him. "But... I..." he trailed off. "Yes?" I probed gently. He looked my way. He had a complicated look on his face, even with the unfocused black and red eyes. "... Okay." was all we got. That was all we could expect in this situation, so we just started hitting the road. When we finally got there, we helped him out of the car. There were lots of clan members about. They all stopped what they were doing and stared at us. I could understand why they had that reaction. This was a very startling visage that 02 was sporting. He was a warped and a corrupted deviant. Some of the more skittish AEP members ran away in fear. Others got aggressive.
