Hunter glared at them. "C'mon! Manny. Roddy. You both feel the same way." he snapped. Both of them gave him a noogie with laughing. 12-001 stepped up to them. "It's not right. You can't be equal to us. We're better than you in every single way. I hate you." he spat. 08-001 crossed his arms and nodded his head. "If my sire likes you, I'll obey him. That's fine with me. That does not mean I like it." he said. He then walked off on his own. 12-001 was still here, trying to menace all of them. None of them were effected. Hunter, Emmanuel and Rodrick had been put on notice by 08-001. "Hey Jake. Can't you do something? That was pretty wild, wasn't it?" Emmanuel asked the cyborg. Jake just said "08-001 will behave. I can't change his opinion of you." I looked at 12-001. He was not moving along. It was clear he wanted some sort of reaction from them. I sighed and said "You can move along for now. 08-001 has left already. Or, I can call Brett over. He might want to play with you too." I said. We both know the kind of "play" that would involve. He glared before leaving. I rolled my eyes.
Going their own way was fine. As long as they were not going to hurt anybody, there was no need to get in their way. In fact, things would probably escalate if we pushed them too much. The cousins stayed over for 3 more days before they left. Rodrick had to get back to his job. You only had so many days off for a holiday when you had full time employment. "Remember to come back here in 9 weeks. We'll give you the kid when you come back." I said to him. He nodded and the cousins got in their car. I asked Brett to go with them. I did not want anything to happen to them. Cold Clan was still lurking in the eastern quadrant. If those 2 got marked as people to fuck with because of that, I would feel really bad. They were just random NPCs to Paul, Brett and me. To Hunter, they were his literal family. We had a duty to protect them. Brett did not mind. When they got home safely, he flew his way back. Volta City was where they lived. That was where the transmission hub of Magnetic Clan was held. The government was occupying it. I doubted they would try anything that crazy over there.
Brett told me that there was an incident where an enemy PEA unit tried to shoot him out of the sky. It was not effective. He cast a spell in response and nuked him from a lofty 100 feet in the air. It was clear that they would need some back up after all. I went to the PEA units that were living in the apartment. As an officer, I could give them missions. I assigned them to protect Rodrick and Emmanuel Diploti. They nodded their heads, armed up and left to go do that. It would give them some experience. We watched them go. Even if it was not needed, they could grow from the experience. I was satisfied with how we handled the situation. We were not making any music. All of our groups had at least one member dead. They were buried as heroic soldiers in the fight against Magnetic Clan. We had a rerelease of their classic songs. That was well received. If we had any music with them lying around in the vault, we released it all together as a large memorial album. It was called Brave Soldiers. That was a massive success. People were almost obligated to buy it. They died fighting for them.
