CUT TO: SILVER AEGIS
EXT. HOSPITAL ROOM- NIGHT
SILVER PALADIN LAYS IN THE HOSPITAL BED. PB, DR. ATKINS, AND EMISSARY ALL STAND AROUND HIM.
[Pb]
So what happens now?
[Emissary]
We wait for the next paladin.
[Pb]
You just have them on stand by?
[Dr. Atkins]
Well no not exactly. The Silver Paladin is chosen by a very complicated process. The people that apply or get chosen are put through a rigorous test to ensure that they have the stomach for the position. By the time they come out of the training they are almost morally incorruptible.
[Pb]
Seems a little like brainwashing to me.
[Emissary]
Necessary brainwashing to say the least. Do you know what this organization would be like if there was someone with too much bias? Everything that Silver Paladin has done up till now has been to ensure that the freedoms of this country, no matter how little, are kept freedoms.
[Pb]
What are we going to do about the people that Dr. Middleton set free?
[Dr. Atkins]
It might not be what you want to hear however, we have to track them down.
[Emissary]
They are prisoners for a reason.
[Pb]
How far away was I from being a prisoner like them?
[Dr. Atkins]
Your situation was different.
[Emissary]
Let's not do this. You're in this for the long haul. Just do as you're ordered to and nothing bad will happen to you.
[Pb]
What is that supposed to mean?
[Emissary]
We're going to fight and you'll lose.
[Pb]
Are you sure?
[Dr. Atkins]
Come on, guys.
PB SCOFFS AND LEAVES THE ROOM.
CUT TO: WOODS
EXT. WOODS- NIGHT
CHROME, ARGON, AND MERCURY WALK ALONG A PATH IN A WOODED AREA.
[Mercury]
How long are we going to be walking out here?
[Chrome]
Who cares? We're free. For us, this means a new start. To whatever we want.
[Argon]
We aren't gonna wait on the guy that freed us?
[Chrome]
What for? He did so for his own agenda. As far as I'm concerned that means that he didn't help us out of the kindness of his heart, which also means that he's bound to involve us in his problems.
THERE IS THE SUDDEN SOUND OF A PTERODACTYL SCREECH AND MIDDLETON LANDS DOWN IN FROM OF CHROME AND THE OTHERS. HE LETS DIAMONDFIELD GO AND THEN ADDRESSES THE OTHER THREE.
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