Stepping outside of the club, we saw something that we were all surprised by. 09-003 was crouching against the wall outside of the club. I had to do a double take. There was surprise on the investigators' faces as well. We all drew weapons on him. He looked at us and frowned. "Stop pointing weapons at me, humans! I will kill you all and then walk past you." he growled. I seriously doubted it, but I lowered my gun anyway. "What do you want? We are not giving 09-001 back after that attack." I told him. He glared at us. Marion asked "You were given a chance a freedom? Why are you here?" Nancy said "If you want to surrender, you can do that." Terrance reached behind himself to get a pair of handcuffs. He tried to arrest 09-003. The AEP unit just smirked at him as it was slapped on his wrists. His body was made out of nanites. The thick metal cuffs just slipped off of him. We just looked at the handcuffs on the floor. We were not restraining him unless we fought him seriously and won. Other than that, he was the only one in total control of the engagement. "I want to talk to 09-001." he said plainly.
Having little to no time to deal to this, I just called the leader of Sonic Clan. I told her about the enemy AEP unit squatting her. She said to get him to leave by any means that I could think of. "Use up to lethal force if you have to as long as the threat is gone. This meeting in particular cannot fail. We are all directionless until we've decided who will be doing what." she said before hanging up the phone. That was true. "Where is the rest of your clan? We have to move this along. Sonic Clan said to remove you, even if it means killing you. You saw us kill some of you during the battle at the very first meeting." I told him. 09-003 got angry. "I don't care what a stupid Advocate says to you. Let me speak to 09-001!" I just sighed really deeply. "What do you even want to tell him!? He's a prisoner and not a guest here." "Radiation Clan is dead. All the PEP and PEA units are gone. Those evil syndicate men gave us up!" Bruce and the other syndicates were an institution of the game. We fucked around with one and found out how tenacious they could all be. That was one. Having 3 hate your guts was death.
Libra Force, Cubic Systems and Machina Systems were all on the war path against them since the failed ambush. Any human agent they had that had the slightest whiff of information on where they could be hiding ratted them out. And they definitely should have done it. Like they had said, their cooperation was mutually beneficial. They got lots of money, tech and power by allying with the enterprising cyborgs that had the blueprints for cool weapons and gadgets. They just needed the time, money and materials to go off and make them somewhere. Once that was done, the humans could make some minor modifications and sell them on the black market for a massive amount of money. With a bit more tinkering, they could go legitimate and just sell them openly to the government, mercenaries and other private contractors that needed the cutting edge of death machines. They were not, as a general rule, known to be suicidal or altruistic. If the end goal of their "partners" is for the syndicates to be made slaves or killed, Libra Force, Cubic Systems and Machina Systems would strike first and hard.
