Episode 8 - 3: Back 2 Business...

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[He is baby. Has he lost some years? Canonically? Yes, which is my original depiction was inaccurate. Look at new baby...]

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"Attention, honored Rhodes Island Operators, this is Kal'tsit." She spoke through the comms.

A month had past.

"Thanks to our efforts, the Chernobog issue has been resolved peacefully." Kal'tsit said with a smile.

The Doctor sat on the floor of his office, leant against his desk, arms laid across his knees.

"Much of the truth will stay buried forever in the ruins of Chernobog. Because we live in an uncaring world." She continued.

"But Rhodes Island will remember. No matter what else we undertake... we must remember," Kal'tsit began, making the Doctor sigh and stare at the ceiling.

"A Rhodes Island Operator does not sacrifice their life for a single person or event."

The Doctor looked at a clipboard in front of him, where a sales form and recipe for a beta test of medicine was listed.

'The first step...' The Doctor thought with a saddened smile.

"It is not for the results that we commit to what we do. We do something not because we want to see it done. As a business, this may be a foolish strategy. But we live for more than material gain."

"Our brave Operators have proved that life, and it's value, lay not only in ensuring the survival of one or many people, or in its biological definition... We have to live on in moral, civilized sense. Because the future of life needs support... and Rhodes Island is that support."

"We are fighting for a cause that will heal the scars on our world."

The Doctor took the pen attached to the clipboard, and signed his name at the bottom of the form, right beside Kal'tsit's, and a few other medical staffs'.

"It is for this belief that we are willing to die."

"Ace Squad, thirteen members. Ace. Bad Tom. Kerg. Hard Brick. WoodsPoon. Seventeen. Bronze Nose. Green Pea. Lunar Silver. Confidenty. Sandwash. Violet Flame. And Caries."

"Amiya Squad, thirteen members. Dim Needle. B-Softhand. Chilijimme. KeenEar. AngerNeighing. Sunty. Marco Smith. Fade. Divides. Antonio Lisa. Wildash. Hui. And Indigo Jade."

"Scout Squad. Thirteen members. Scout. Milim. Tipsy. Slink. Mimi. Leafa. Slanna. Mary. Thumbtack. Mudflower. Macron. Pter. Scorpion."

"Rosmontis Squad, one member. Bluishsilver."

"Raidian Squad, one member. Liqusa."

"Forty-one sacrifices in all, in the Chernobog Incident. Rhodes Island will not forget. We will remember their names forever. Even should Rhodes Island cease to exist someday, all that they have done will leave its mark on our world."

The Doctor watched as Amiya opened the door to his office, Ch'en standing behind her, and the culprit of chaos Talulah, beside her. They walked in and awaited for a response, yet all he did was stand.

He nodded to the two, clipboard in hand, using it as an excuse to leave.

Unfortunately, even more people were piled outside.

FrostNova, Swire, Hoshiguma, Blaze, and surprisingly Skadi and Nearl were visiting.

"..." the Doctor stood in silence, waiting for them to make a move with an irritated face.

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