"BENGINO, À QUELLE MESURE EST LE STAB? (BENGINO, HOW BAD IS THE STAB?)" yelled Serafina, clearly panicking. "c'est un coup de poignard propre donc pas si mal que ça je ne peux pas bouger autant (it-it's a clean stab through so not that bad I just can't move as much)". ARG-04 laughs before he says, "Sure it might not be bad now from the looks of it but in reality, you're already dead if that's not treated in... say 20 minutes?". Sophia stands over the captain before saying "You know I never got to say this before you pushed me off the ship in a murder attempt-". "But I didn't push you, I just couldn't grab you in-" said the captain before he's cut off by Sophia loudly yelling "shut up". Sophia pauses for a second before continuing "don't try and feed lies to me, ARG-04 told me what you did and how you tried to deactivate him-".
"I only deactivated him because he was literally trying to kill me, I don't even know how he even got reactivated."
"Well, that was because you purposefully didn't grab me and left me to die on this godforsaken planet”.
"I didn't purposefully not grab you, Sophia, I only had like 10 seconds to react, and I just assumed that you would have died from a fall like that."
"Yeah, well guess what I didn't, you just can't face the fact that everything bad that’s ever happened to you has and always will be caused by you."
"Oh yeah like what?"
"literally everything like you do, I can't specify it if you wake up and choose to ruin your life and whine about how it's not your fault but you're trying to change the subject so what I was trying to say before is that ARGO4 told me that you used to have a crush on me, how sad that you realised that you had absolutely no chance with me and resort to your little murder plot"
"Sophia, you have to listen to me, I never wanted to kill you, ARG-04 is lying to you, he might not be wrong about me having a crush on you, but you have to listen to me please”.
Sophia laughs before saying "Oh please, spare me your pathetic pleads, I saw you not save me and considering what ARG04 said it all makes sense now".
"No, it damn well doesn't, what motive would I even have?"
"Hmm well let's see you always liked me and realised that you wouldn't have a chance with me so that's your motive”.
"That's one of the worst motives I've ever heard, ARG-04 would have a better motive to kill you than me."
Sophia scoffs before she says "ARGO4 back me up here, you said that he was trying to kill me and he's lying to me but now I-I'm not sure, are you sure that it was W-"
"Captain just stop speaking for once in your pathetic life anyways William, considering how we're all trapped on this planet, I'm going to be nice to you for once and give you an ultimatum which is if you sacrifice yourself willingly, I'll repair your crashed ship and fix that engine I broke, I'll even be extra nice and repair your little dying friend over there and safety take ARG-05 back to earth or I'll kill you anyways and let everyone here rot, it's your call," said ARG-04 cutting off Sophia mid-sentence.
"Captain. don't. you. dare" yelled ARG-05 at the captain, making ARG-04 scoff as he says, "So you're the captain now, that's kind of funny that they let someone as pathetic as you lead, I never thought that you would have it in you but anyways don't listen to the childish version of me, decide for yourself". "CHILDISH!?" yelled ARG-05 as he switched to his angry expression. "What would you rather I call you what you really are, a clown, no? then shut up" said ARG-04 in a mocking tone.
"I mean I could say the same for you but at least I don't turn my captains into mindless worker drones to do my bidding," said ARG-05 in the same mocking tone which makes ARG-04 scoff as he moves his eyes in a way that looks like he's eye-rolling. "Well at least, I don't act like I'm permanently stuck in children's mode," said ARG-04 smugly. ARG-05 switches to his smug expression before replying "Oh so you don't deny the mindless captain part?". ARG-04 is caught off guard for a few seconds before responding "No I do deny it, I'll have you know that the captain has her own free will and is assisting me willingly, she can even control what she wants to do while in this suit isn't that right Captain?"
Sophia says nothing as ARG-04 lifts her arm up as he triumphantly yells "See?". ARG-05 laughs, still having a smug expression on his face, before responding in a monotone voice "ARG-04, don't even try to lie to me, I read your file, the same as all of the ARG robots before me, I know that you can control the Captain's suit that your currently hiding inside, I guess my Captain was right when he wrote in your report that you were 'a defective and dangerous threat to society who seemed to be devoid of most human emotions and a sadist, must fix in next model as it resulted in attempted murder, deactivated as of 4/19/2027', in all honesty, by just looking at how you're acting, the only thing my Captain got wrong is your deactivation date. ARG-03 seems to be more mentally sound than you and it's written that he claimed to have heard dead people according to his report. Really shows how much of a 'great' assistant you were".
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ARG-04 doesn't say anything for a moment before responding in a tone that makes him sound like he was insulted "I can't believe you would dare to look through my file, that's my personal information, really shows how great of a character you have, you don't even deserve the slightest ounce of respect from me". ARG-05 scoffs before he sneers "Well why would I want respect from someone who uses their Captain as a flesh suit and is an emotionless sadist? Please, you should be begging for my respect after all I'm a better version than you'll ever be". "Oh, shut it ARG-05" said ARG-04, finally giving up on arguing with ARG-05. Whilst ARG-04 & ARG-05 were arguing, the captain noticed from the corner of his eye, Bengino was still alive and was cutting through Serafina's restraints with his teeth along with he was nearly through.
The captain needed to stall for time so Bengino could fully cut through it.
"So, what will it be, William? I'm a very busy robot who hasn't got all day to deal with your nonsense" said ARG-04 as he glared at the captain. The captain pretends to think of his decision for a few seconds before he stares at ARG-04 whilst slowly saying "fuck you". ARG-04 laughs before saying "Oh well it doesn't matter you’re going to die anyways". Before the Captain could reply, ARG-04 begins to repeatedly punch the captain’s helmet causing the glass to begin to crack as more and more as the green liquid keeping him alive spills out making one of his eyes burn as it's exposed to oxygen but at least he was able to see clearer than ever. As the Captain begins to black out from the repeated head trauma and ARG-04 is about to completely shatter the glass, he notices that Serafina has broken through her restraints before she lunges at ARG-04, accidentally pushing the captain to the ground before everything went black.
The captain wakes up a few minutes later to the sound of rain, muffling the sounds of yelling, snapping, and punching. The captain looked to his left to see Serafina and Sophia fighting but by the looks of it, Serafina was losing. Without thinking he yells out to ARG-05 "ARGOS release one of your claws, so I can cut us free with friction then you help Serafina with one of your claws while I help untie people with the other". ARG-05 says "Okay Captain" as he releases one of his claws and the captain starts trying to move up and down in his chair to create friction. The plan works and the captain quickly stands up before rushing over to Merlo, who was closest to Serafina and Sophia. Once they're over there, Sophia is choking out Serafina making ARG-05 quickly decide to hit Sophia in the head with one of his claws, making her fall to the ground, as the captain quickly grabs one of ARG-05's claws as he asks Merlo "Are you okay?"
"yeah I'm fine, so are you going to tell me the deal with those two and why that ARG04 guy hates you so much," said Merlo as Sophia gets back up and ARG-04 takes back control of the suit grinning as he goes to punch the Captain, only being stopped by Serafina lunging at him, making both of them fall to ground as she repeatedly punches him as she ugly-cries. "It's a long story, can you untie the others?" the captain asked, making Merlo nod in response, and quickly rushing over to Pavona. ARG-04 throws Serafina off him before snapping his fingers, tying her up again before he notices Bengino crawling over to her. He grins as he says to the captain "y'know I'll give you credit, you were always good at getting people on your side, but... I've had enough of your silly games". ARG-04 slowly struts over Bengino, pulling out the spear lodged into him, causing Bengino to groan in pain which makes ARG-04 smile.
Just as Merlo nearly unties Pavona, ARG-04 menacingly walks over to the captain, cutting off ARG-05 arms with his spear when ARG-05 goes to automatically attack him. "I was right, your ARG-05 is a pathetic clone of me, he can't even defend you, it's sad really, I thought ARG-05 would last longer but no matter," said ARG-05 before hitting the captain in the ribs, creating a distinct cracking sound, which makes the captain slump to the floor from the pain. Before he completely falls, ARG-04 picks him up and drags him over to the window as he laughs before saying "Aw did I break some of your ribs, old friend? Well, no matter at least you won't be in pain for much longer".
Before the Captain could respond, ARG-04 threw him out of the window and onto the grass outside. The captain tries to get up but fails due to being in too much pain from ARG-04 hitting him. However, despite the rain dripping from his helmet slightly impairing his vision, one thing he could clearly see is Sophia, approaching him with the same spear ARG-04 used to stab Bengino, blood still dripping from it, as ARG-04 stares into his soul with his face being the only really think lighting up the grass. The captain tries to crawl away from him but he's too late as Sophia catches up to him, realising that this is probably it, he moves his body to face upwards so he can at least die without ARG-05 having to watch. Sophia stays quiet as ARG-04 slowly lifts the spear, as Sophia slightly trembles and ARG-04's grin grows wider. "Goodbye William," said ARG-04 in a monotone voice as he was about to stab the captain.
BANG!
"w-what?" said Sophia as she dropped the spear, narrowly avoiding the captain’s head, before holding onto her shoulder as she yelled out in pain before passing out on the grass, revealing Merlo holding a gun with white smoke coming from the nuzzle. "Captain it's just a shot to the shoulder, it's not that bad, get up" ARG-04 growled as Merlo rushed over to the captain. "h-how did you even get a gun?" said the captain in a shocked tone. "Stole it from my dad during the dinner, guess it's a good thing I did" Merlo replied as they looked over at ARG-04 who's struggling to wake Sophia up. The captain slowly gets up and takes a few steps forwards as he says "Oh yeah that makes sense-" before fainting. Before the Captain falls to the floor, the last thing he sees is Merlo running over to him, yelling "William are you okay?"