*Quint flinches slightly, not wanting Metal angry at him* It's not like that, oniisan. We didn't know if you'd panic. It can be really wierd for a while because of the programming changes, and then with everything else that might have happened to you we just didn't want you to be hurt.
*Quint shivers, fighting the urge to retrieve Sakugarne from data storage and try to hide behind it. Instead, he backed up against the 'wall' of the cave as if trying to stay out of the way.*
Please don't be mad, oniisan. We didn't know what you'd do. There wasn't any way to know what he'd done to you.
A-and I'm the one who mentioned the teleporters to you, Quick, in case they panicked. I-it's my fault.
*Quick speaks more calmly.* Quint, it's not your fault. I could have just as easily said that it was an unnecessary precaution. I made the final choice, therefore if someone is to blame, it's me.
*He glares at Metal.* Leave the others out of this. For all we knew, you could have tried to kill us on reactivation. This was the only safe option.
*Metal suddenly stops the angry glaring on realizing actually how much he was scaring Quint. He was actually a bit surprised at himself for doing that. After this long, having someone actually scared of him is a bit unnerving. After a bit of hesitation, he comments sadly.* So this is what you were worried about, Quick. Me doing something stupid like this, except with weapons?
*Quint blinks, surprised a bit by the thought of Metal treated like that* I couldn't either. I wasn't allowed to use my weapon inside the Castle, and I'm small even for the way my universe is. All I could do sometimes, with some of the others, was run and hide.
*Metal shivers a bit.* Never could run or hide for very long, and I figured out rather quickly that running was exactly what some of them wanted me to do. More fun for them...
*almost distractedly* It made it into a game. Especially for Top. Hardman would get bored and look for an easier target, but Topman liked trying to find me. Hide and seek...
I'm very good at hiding. Being small helped there. I could get into places he couldn't even reach into. And I only had to run and hide long enough for Enker to find out.
Enker never liked that kind of thing, but sometimes he had orders, and he was busy a lot. So he didn't always find out until after...
*Metal sighs.* I stopped bothering to run not long after they told me about the others... What was the point? No one cared if I was hurt... And I didn't think there was any reason to try to escape with the others gone... It was over faster at least. They got bored with an easy target sometimes...
Maybe that's why they told you the others were gone. So you wouldn't try to get away.
There was a crazy alternate of Blues that tried something like that with me. I still don't know why. He said that nobody from the Castle cared that I was gone. Not even Enker...
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*He seems a bit agitated.* So you don't trust me to not do something stupid... Is that it?
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Please don't be mad, oniisan. We didn't know what you'd do. There wasn't any way to know what he'd done to you.
A-and I'm the one who mentioned the teleporters to you, Quick, in case they panicked. I-it's my fault.
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*He glares at Metal.* Leave the others out of this. For all we knew, you could have tried to kill us on reactivation. This was the only safe option.
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We just didn't want to be stress relief.
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I'm very good at hiding. Being small helped there. I could get into places he couldn't even reach into. And I only had to run and hide long enough for Enker to find out.
Enker never liked that kind of thing, but sometimes he had orders, and he was busy a lot. So he didn't always find out until after...
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There was a crazy alternate of Blues that tried something like that with me. I still don't know why. He said that nobody from the Castle cared that I was gone. Not even Enker...
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All it matters now is that they lied.
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