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[thxforthememories]

[Tadaaa. It's the resident ninja robot. Who's sitting up on the roof of the medbay's temple thing, studying his hand.]

I think I've recovered by now...

[A beat, and he regards the video feed, calmly.]

... I'm tired of sitting here, being useless.  It's time I started living.  And so... I want to try it. The fuel everyone here uses. "Energon".

Is there somewhere you all go to find it? 




[PRIVATE | flagged to BRAVE POLICE and TOMONAGA YUUTA]

I've been offered... recently... the chance to join your team. By two of your number. When I was asked, I wasn't sure what I wanted. Or if your offer was sincere.

[He falls silent. This isn't easy to say.]

If... so. If you will still have me...

I accept.

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[thxforthememories]

... I hope so.

I remember him. He tried too hard.

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[drillsandballs]

[Drill Boy can't help but laugh at that.]

Heehee he really does try too hard.

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[thxforthememories]

... Does he?

[So he was actually right about someone for once?]

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[drillsandballs]

He can, sometimes I wonder if he really thinks he is as good at things as he acts. Maybe it's just a part of his personality, I don't know, it's hard to tell with him sometimes.

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[thxforthememories]

You know him well?

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[drillsandballs]

Yeah, he and the other Build Team members, Dumpson and McCrane combine into Build Tiger, I was designed as an add on to make Super Build Tiger, so I work with him a lot.

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[thxforthememories]

Super... Build Tiger...

Did you name it that?

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[drillsandballs]

No, Commissioner Saejima named it. Apparently it's cool.

You know, I don't know but I think he named most of us.

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[thxforthememories]

He's... very strange.

A very strange human being.

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[drillsandballs]

He is a bit, isn't he?

He does have some interesting ideas sometimes though!

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[thxforthememories]

I didn't see him often enough to say. Either way.

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[drillsandballs]

Ah, I didn't know how much you did or didn't see him. We see him all the time, which sometimes can be a little tiring, but he is a good guy over all.

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[thxforthememories]

The only one I ever really saw was... was Shadowmaru. As you know.

I never knew the humans very well.

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[drillsandballs]

All of the humans a kind of different from each other, a lot like how we are all different from each other, as I'm sure you've seen around here. There is a lot that can be learned from them.

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[thxforthememories]

Learn.

From them?

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[drillsandballs]

Yeah, we only have so much we can teach each other about feelings, but we can learn a lot from humans about them.

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[thxforthememories]

All human beings have ever taught me is that I'm disposable.

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[drillsandballs]

Disposable? How? Why?

Boss wouldn't think that!

[And now he is very panicky, considering that he has no idea why anyone would consider any of them disposable. Even Azuma, who wasn't fond of considering them as people, didn't think of them as disposable.]

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[thxforthememories]

... You don't know?

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[drillsandballs]

[He has no words, just shakes his head no, looking very worried.]

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[thxforthememories]

I'm a prototype.

They only needed me so long as Shadowmaru was untrained. After that... they were going to reformat me.

Erase me.

Kill me.

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[drillsandballs]

[For Drill Boy, who was pretty much the prototype and the final version all in one that idea was very frightening.]

Did Boss know?

[The question almost begged to be answered with a no.]

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[thxforthememories]

I don't see how he couldn't.

[Except... he honestly has no idea, one way or another. It just seems obvious to him.]

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[drillsandballs]

Well... the commissioner likes to surprise Boss... maybe he didn't tell him?

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[thxforthememories]

He was there. The day I saw the others.