DoomPet

Chapter 13

Daisy leaped up onto Samuel's body and sat down. It was warm and she fit perfectly into the crook of its arm. In fact, she wondered if the body had been made specially for snuggling gargoyles. It sure seemed like it.

Samuel, upon noticing the gargoyle, made a noise similar to a cat in a blender on frappe mode. "VEGA GET THAT... THAT THING OFF MEEEEE!" His voice was dripping with malice and more rage than the Slayer.

"Well sir I don't think she's doing any harm-"

"SHOO RAT DEMON!" Samuel took control over the arms of the table and began poking at the demon. He made one clamp down on her wing and attempted to pry her off.

Daisy growled, low and rumbling. When the arm didn't release her she grabbed it in her mouth and mangled it beyond recognition. Despite being a gargoyle she could fuck some shit up when she had to. After all, if she was to fight alongside the Slayer, she had to be badass.

Samuel watched in horror as she shredded the metal arm and silently begged her not to do the same to his precious body. Immediately, the arms backed off and gave the little demon plenty of room. "Fine, fine, I'll be..." the word caused him physical pain to say, "nice. You can stay there, just don't... do anything."

Daisy accepted the terms of his surrender and snuggled into the crook of the robot's arm. While Vega and Samuel debated over filters for the power source, Daisy wondered what they were doing and what the robot body was.

Vega paused, "Oh no, she's gonna tell them."

Samuel would roll his eyes if he had any at the moment, "She's a gargoyle how can she?"

Vega spoke in a small soft voice, "She's a clever girl."

Dammit, Vega had a point. "I'll rip her a new asshole if she even thinks about telling those two buffoons." If his body was discovered and destroyed he wasn't sure what he'd do.

"Sir, 'new asshole?' I don't understand." Vega was hopelessly behind in slang.

"Yelling at someone but with more pizzazz." Samuel stared down in absolute disdain for the gargoyle.

Vega stayed in the dark of the room contemplating the fact that a word with four Z's existed. He, with much regret, added it to his language memory bank. Softly in the dark he whispered, "Pizzazz?"

Samuel realized, as he did a mock loading of his conscience into the half finished body, that Vega hadn't given him permission to shoo Daisy out. The AI had gotten so distracted with new words and slang he let Samuel do what he pleased. The robot wondered what would happen if he told Vega about supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. That would probably overload his processors enough to make him pop a wire.

The led light of his faceplate flickered then began glowing a bright blue. Sudden jerky movements were all he could accomplish. His shoulders spasmed off the table in odd shaking jerks.

Daisy hissed at the moment and threatened to bite the robot's arm off. Her mandibles clicked furiously.

Disgusting.

Samuel tried to grab the gargoyle and toss her away. In an instant she maneuvered away, chomping down on his wrist. He watched Daisy immediately turn her attention to the door. "Daisy, stay here." The demon hissed at him and attempted to bolt for the door. The robot grabbed the creature, forcing her down on the table. "Stay. Here."

The little demon whined pitifully and began screaming.

Panicking that she'd be heard, Samuel ran down through some lines of code until he found a list of alarms. He cranked the volume up and blasted a "hull breach" alarm right in Doomguy's and the marauder's faces. The resulting clamor and panic between them pleased the sadistic bastard that was Dr. Samuel Hayden, and even better it bought him some time.