Agent Alaska: Recollection and Freelancer

"Standardized Testing"

Three gunshots are heard, then Tex is seen standing over three dead bodies. More sounds of gunshots are heard and Tex turns around to see Alpha surrounded by 10 dead and bloodied bodies.

Church: "Wow. You guys took all those guys out at once? Was that really necessary?"

Alpha: "I just needed to release some steam."

Tex: "Eh, yeah, they'll live."

Alpha looks at Tex, giving her a doubtful look.

Church: "No... They won't."

Tex: "Oh. Yeah, I see your point. Come on, let's get inside."

Tex starts walking inside with Alpha.

Church: "Ok. Man... Those guys got fucked up... What? Wait a minute... Oh no..."

Church has a flashback of Tex walking into the base at Valhalla.

Church: "Tex, Alpha, hold on a second!"

Alpha: "Hm?"

Tex: "What's wrong?"

Church: "Um... Yeah... Don't know if I mentioned this before, but I've kind of had psychic visions about this place. Yeah, I thought it was Valhalla at first, but I guess it turns out it was here... Probably should have told you this earlier."

Alpha sighs in disappointment.

Alpha: "You should've."

Tex: "Yes, you should have told me this earlier."

Church: "Well I'm telling you now, does that count?"

Tex: "Do you think it counts?"

Church: "Nah, probably not."

Tex: "You're not psychic, genius. You're just remembering. You've been here before. We all were. This is where they moved Alpha, er, the Alpha AI. After a few of us Freelancers went rogue, we compared notes and pieced together what they were doing to him. I convinced them to come back. Break him out. The project moved him here to try to protect him, so that they could keep experimenting on him."

Church: "Woah... You were in charge of the break in?"

Tex: "I couldn't just let them destroy him. He was being tortured. The Director had even started to use some of the other AI against him. Think about that. Turning his own pieces against him? It's sick. Gamma and Omega would fabricate scenarios where he was designed to fail, and they made it seem like his failures were hurting all of the people he cared about. And there was nothing he could do about it. It drove him mad, broke him down even more."

Church: "But you came back. You saved him."

Tex: "No... I didn't. It was too late. By the time I got to him, he was already long gone. I don't even think he recognized me. I failed... Only in my case, it really was my fault."

Alpha puts a hand on her shoulder, and she relaxes.

Tex: "Thanks, Alaska. I'm glad you're here."

Alpha: (chuckles) "I know when I'm needed."

In the desert, the Meta is beating the corpses of the Aliens.

Washington: "Doc, do you have a second?"

Doc: "I'm a prisoner, Wash. I have nothing but seconds."

Washington: "Right, good point."

Doc: "I mean, you don't even need to ask. You can just be like "hey, prisoner number one, come over here and talk to me, grrr I'm a Freelancer grrr."."