"Chapter 6"

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Director: (voice over) "Dear Chairman."

Fade in to some rocky terrain, with Meta shooting at South inside a Domed Energy Shield

Director: (voice over) "The Meta is nothing more than an entity seeking to increase its power, in these confusing days after the war. From my perspective, that seems to be a very common occurrence at the moment."

South Dakota: "Delta, report."

Delta: "Your suit's energy reserves are nearly depleted. The shield will not-"

South: "How much longer?"

Delta: "The Meta will breach our barrier within sixty seconds. I suggest that you prepare your grenades while I divert power from your armor's non-essential systems."

South: "No."

Delta: "You have a better plan?"

South: "Keep the shield up as long as you can. When it starts to falter, transfer yourself to the storage unit."

Delta: "I think I would be more useful in my current state."

South: "I'll dump my shield generator at the same time. There's no way that thing can resist the both of you."

Delta: "You are... abandoning me?"

South: "It's my best chance to get out of this."

Delta: "South, protocol violations aside, this seems to be a very short term solution. The Meta will only grow more powerful by integrating me into-"

South: "Program override, acknowledge last directive."

Delta: "Acknowledged. Preparing storage unit."

South: "Get ready."

Delta: "Shield failure in five, four-"

South: "Get ready to eject."

Delta: "Three-"

South: "Transfer to storage."

Delta: "Two-"

South: "On my mark-"

Delta: "One."

South: "Now!"

A grenade goes off at the perimiter of the shield, and Church, Caboose, and Washington come over the hill in two jeeps

Washington: "There they are!"

Delta: "New targets encountered."

Washington: "Don't let it get near her!"

The vehicles all crash and are abandoned and people start firing at each other, with Washington behind a rock and Church and Caboose behind a wall

Washington: "And don't let her get away!"

Church: "Her? Isn't she a Freelancer like you?"

Washington: "Yeah, just don't let her leave!"

Church: "Okay! Caboose!"

Caboose: "Hello."

Church: "Hey, see that purple one? She's on our team. You should help her."

Caboose: "Okay!"

Caboose stands up and shoots South

South: "Ah, son of a-!"

Delta: "Alarm, friendly fire!"

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