Arisen

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Pax's dropped to the ground on his knees with his servos tied in front of him.

"Everybody relax." Darkwing orders as more bots are dropped down. "Soon as we do what we came here to do, we'll leave, and you can go back to your lives."

Darkwing stands in front of a bot Pax doesn't know the name of, and holds up a device that scans his faceplate.

" Ascendant: 5% "

"Disappointing." Darkwing says. "You might as well not be one at all."

Then he pulls out his cannon and shoots the bot dead, making Pax jump from where he's still kneeling.

"We were given strict orders." Airachnid reminds Darkwing.

"Everyone here is a criminal." Darkwing reminds her back.

"We need to leave sooner than later." Airachnid says disdainfully. "The sleeping serum can't hold out much longer."

Darkwing walks past Pax, but instead of scanning him, walks past him towards where the sparkling Pax spoke to is kneeling.

"Hello there." If Pax didn't know better, he'd say Darkwing is making a genuine effort to not scare the sparkling. But Pax doesn't take his optics off of them.

"I didn—" the sparkling stammers as Darkwing holds up the scanner again.

" Ascendant: 35% "

"Looks like you're not special enough for us either." Darkwing says, lifting his weapon to the sparkling's face.

"H-he said—the W-wrecker said to not come down." The sparkling says, crying.

"He was right." Darkwing says, but right as he's about to fire, Pax shoves him backwards forcefully enough to knock the blast away, but Darkwing manages to shove him to the ground.

Darkwing attempts to overpower Pax, but the smaller bot lifts his tied servos to wrap around Darkwing's helm and hold it down, hard.

It only lasts a few seconds, as Darkwing pulls the servos off, then right as he's about to do more,

"Stop."

Darkwing glares at the purple opticed bot, but she just reminds him, "We haven't tested him yet. Stand down, Darkwing."

Darkwing finally gets up reluctantly, but when Airachnid says, "Sentinel said to test every single one. No exceptions.", Darkwing can't resist kicking Pax right in the abdomen, and as Pax's curled up in pain, Airachnid's the one to hold the scanner in front of his faceplate.

" Ascendant: 100% "

"Impossible." Airachnid says, sounding almost awed.

"What does it say?" Darkwing demands.

"It's him." Airachnid tells him.

"That can't be." Darkwing snatches the scanner out of her servo and holds it up to Pax's face himself, scanning him again.

" Ascendant: 100% "

Now even Darkwing looks amazed, as Airachnid says, "Prepare him for transport. I'll get a message to Sentinel."

As Airachnid crawls away, Darkwing kneels down and sneers, "You have no idea what you've just done. My advice? Take your own life before it's too late."

Pax is dragged away by the guards, with Darkwing holding his cannon against his back to prevent any kind of escape, when Darkwing's suddenly attacked from behind and staring down another cannon, this one wielded by D.