E-4

Chapter 28

All they remember is her fighting for them against all odds to save them.
They ran to shut the beasts down and didn't notice her not having their back until they succeeded.
Now they stand at her body.
It's drained, soulless.
The monsters don't eat, they simply kill, and once the job is done they leave the body as it is.
They couldn't stop the tears as they rolled down each and every one of their cheeks.
Brian goes down on his knees and cries out, slamming the palms of his hands into the ground.
C-4 simply sits next to E-4, looking for something, anything to show she's alive. Finding nothing, he sobs and grasps her hand as tightly as he used to. Back when they were simply escaping their labs.
A-4 leans against the back wall in shock. He couldn't understand the support that had got them through everything was gone. The tears came as they do, and he couldn't stop them.
B-4 slides down the wall and cries. The intelligence he had found in her had been lost, as had the feeling of having someone who understands what he's saying.
D-4 doesn't know what to do. He just paces and punches the wall occasionally, for all he can remember was the day she broke her bones, the night he saved her.
Each man slowly falling apart, the room loud with the sound of despair, there's no reason for them not to turn on each other.
C-4 looks into her open eyes, and closes them.
He whispers "don't you know it's rude to open your eyes when someone kisses you, E-4?"
And his lips touch hers lightly.
Brian soon notices this and shoves him off.
"What the HELL BRIAN‽" C-4 yells.
"What the HELL to YOU! What THE HECK ARE YOU DOING KISSING E-4!!"
"I DONT KNOW. SOMETHING THAT I SHOULD'VE WHEN I MET HER!"
"OH SO THE SERVANT DOESN'T GET ANYTHING. HER FRIEND THROUGH OUT HER WHOLE LIFE. I EVEN DIED FOR HER!"
"NO WE KILLED YOU IDIOT!"
"WHAT WERE YOU EVEN THINKING WHEN YOU WENT TO KISS HER‽"
"DOES IT MATTER‽ I COULD'VE THOUGHT SHE'D MAGICALLY COME TO LIFE OR SOMETHING AND I STILL WOULD'VE KISSED HER!"
"That's what you thought didn't you." B-4 joins the conversation.
"MAYBE!"
He sighs.
"Well YOU can't talk! This is ALL YOUR fault!!"
"How so?"
"YOU MADE THE WRONG CALCULATION AND IT FOOLED HER INTO THINKING SHE SHOULD CONTINUE INTO HERE!!"
"Don't blame ME! BLAME A-4 FOR NOT SIGNALLING HER OUT OF HERE OR YELLING OR SOMETHING!"
"SHUT UP ALL OF YOU!" D-4's booming voice silences them.
"Our great friend, the one we all loved has DIED and ALL you can do is BLAME one another!!" He looks at them all in turn.
"Now, they said that they are re building a town here. Therefore, we either have to reproduce with who knows, or they already have townspeople at their disposal. We should honour her in some way in front of, said, people." They nod.
"So, what the hell are we going to do?"
They brainstormed into the night.
Though the story of E-4's life is at an end, their story has now truly begun.