Past losses

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Tashkent practically kicked the door to Soyuz room they left earlier, open. She hastily went inside of the room and looked around. “Soyuz, come out! We need to talk about something important.”

The Battleship didn’t answer. Elma entered after Tashkent and closed the door slowly, something Tashkent completely missed. “You know that you don’t need to scream like that, right?”

“And you need to shut up and die. Where is she?” Tashkent snarked and walked around the room. They were all in here not even half an hour ago when they were all getting bandaged so where did they all vanish? By now there seemed to not even be a single trace of them left. She looked into the bathroom and, besides the humidity in the room and still wet walls telling signs of recent use, found no one actually inside of it. “Did they already leave?”

“I don’t think showering would take an hour even with Soobratzitelny being injured. They must have finished. Guess they are now eating and we missed them. You choose to take the backdoor after all so I guess they left while we walked up here.” Elma shrugged. “Looks like you have to manage things without your boss.” She sat down on one of the beds and waited for Tashkent. She had no idea what the girl wanted from her so she listened closely. The Destroyer simply smiled as she giggled a bit.

“If you wish so.” Said Tashkent and turned to Elma. She walked up to her, summoned her rigging, and pointed the barrels of her guns straight to the head of the Enforcer. “Then let me kill you right here and now!”

Elma widened her eyes. Not in fear or anything even close. No, she was surprised by her doing this. “Interesting. You chose to directly disobey Soyuz orders?” She stared deep into Tashkent's eyes because she had a point about this. Soyuz had ordered them to be friendly with each other and under no circumstances, except an actual fight with murderous intentions, attack each other. Tashkent was actively breaking that order.

“I don’t care about that right now.” Snarled Tashkent and pressed her guns even closer. They were touching Elma’s cheeks by now. The Siren just smiled against it. “You will not leave this room alive.”

“And if Soyuz would hear you now?” Elma shook her head. Soyuz would definitely be disappointed to see this. Elma herself at least tried to not be overly aggressive and she even managed to not bury any of the people that shot at them earlier. She didn't even touch any of them now that she thought about it. She had no idea why Tashkent was acting like this now.

Tashkent smacked her cheek with her guns. “Don’t think you are one of us! You parasite!” She had clear rage in her voice and even Elma actually felt the guns as they made contact. If only the coldness of the steel that is. She was pretty sure that she would not even feel the shells should she fire some.

Elma still wasn’t impressed. “So what's the reason for this?” She leaned in a bit besides the guns. Tashkent made no move to move them. “Come on, you need a reason to actually do this. Normally all of you follow Soyuz’s orders to the letter and they say to not fight each other. And that includes now as well. Yes I listened to Soyuz too. So what moves you to do this? Personal reasons?”

Tashkent stared back. “Shut your mouth before I rip out your tongue to make you shut up!” She steeled her voice again. “You sure have an audacity. An audacity so large that I am surprised that I am the only one to actually notice it."

“And that would be?” Elma asked with a yawn. She didn’t get what she meant. “Trust me when I say that I don’t like being in this whole situation either. In my opinion I would be running around and solving whatever moved them to shoot at us instead of this.”

Tashkent slapped her. This of course didn’t exactly affect the Enforcer but Tashkent felt like she disrespected her with this. “Do you think this is about that?! Do you actually want me to spill it out when I am literally about to end your life?!”

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