Red Vs Blue, & there's Magenta: Recreation

Chapter 6 One New Message

The Epsilon unit opened up, beginning to project a hollow outline of Delta above it.

Caboose: Delta?

Epsilon(Delta): Hello Caboose. It seems fitting to say, good afternoon.

Caboose: Delta! I thought you were in Sister! You should be upstairs waiting for cookies.

Epsilon(Delta): Actually, this is not Delta. We simply felt that you would be most comfortable speaking to Delta.

Caboose: We?

Epsilon(Delta): Yes. Epsilon strongly remembers all the other AI fragments, except for one. When Alpha went insane, Epsilon carried the burden of those memories. We can appear as anyone, in this case, Delta. Who, from your stories, was a trusted source of information for you. Therefore, we felt it best to take his likeness for this conversation.

Caboose: Oh, that makes sense.

Epsilon(Delta): Yes, we felt you would say that.

Caboose: Wait, who's the one you can't look like a ghost as?

Epsilon(Delta): The fragment that inherited the Alpha's suffering, Zeta.

Caboose: But. . . wouldn't he remember suffering?

Epsilon(Delta): Zeta was a. . . different fragment. As I said before, our memories of him are limited and we can only appear as anyone in our membory banks. All we know is that both Zeta and Epsilon were created at the same time.

Caboose: Can you appear as a chair?

Epsilon(Delta): If you felt that was fitting, the holographic technology in this room allows us to project ourselves in any manner. It is surprisingly advanced.

Caboose: How about a giraffe?

Epsilon(Delta): Look, let's just say we can look like many different things, and just leave it at that, okay?

Caboose: Okay.

Epsilon(Delta): We regret that we will not be able to appear to you or communicate with you outside of this room, so you must listen carefully.

Caboose: . . . . .

Epsilon(Delta): . . . Caboose? Do you understand?

Caboose: I am listening carefully.

Epsilon(Delta): Alright, it can be hard to tell. Caboose, we need to find a way to help us. Washington said, when Epsilon was recovered, that our memories could be used to punish the people who tortured Alpha.

Caboose: Okay.

Epsilon(Delta): Washington will not trust us, and our new recent attempts to build a new body are not working.

Caboose: We had a fire!

Epsilon(Delta): We remember. Your friend from Red team described a location nearby with a strange energy source.

Caboose: Oh, that's where Tucker is.

Epsilon(Delta): We don't have many memories of him.

Caboose: Yeah, I never really liked him, so. . . I leave him out of most of the stories.

Epsilon(Delta): The Freelancer Project found a source of intense energy, so a scenario team was sent to investigate the area, but they left without doing anything.

Caboose: They sound dumb.

Epsilon(Delta): Indeed. This place sounds like the location of the energy source. You should go there and investigate. We can explain more when the opportunity arises.