Dirty Tactics

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Red has always had a sixth sense when it came to who people truly were. At a young age, he would know a person's personality from only a simple meeting. Different types of people have different senses, of course, but in his entire lifetime not once has he met someone with a terrifying aura like Cyan's.

From the moment the crewmates all met each other, Red knew there was something wrong with Cyan. She had an aura unlike anyone he'd ever met. It was almost inhuman. His suspicions of her were only doubled when he found a dead body with a gunshot in the head stashed in the janitor's closet.

Many times, Red would try to warn the others about Cyan, but they never listened. He told them she was dangerous, but they brushed it off as paranoia. He told them she was the impostor, but every single time they would make up an excuse for her.

"You're just jealous of her and Pink."

"She's been extremely generous this entire trip, what are you talking about?"

"She was good friends with Purple, she wouldn't kill him."

"Cyan is blunt, maybe even rude sometimes, but she's not evil."

It was so frustrating listen to those imbeciles tell him that she was something she wasn't. Every single time, they would just compliment her and ignore his warnings.

Red growled, slamming his fists against the keyboard in the security room. He was stuck there for the time being, as someone had been able to hack into the doors of the Skeld and shut them all down. Watching the cameras, Red could see that Blue and Yellow were stuck in the navigations hallway, and Black was stuck in the admin hallway.

Useless. Unfortunately for Red, he didn't see the cyan woman in any of the cameras. She must have been in one of the rooms, and in that case...

The man pulled out a black walkie talkie from one of the leg pockets in his suit. He pressed the red button in the top, staring down as it whined into action. It made a terribly loud white noise.

When he turned the small wheel on the WT, it fizzed until the audio was suddenly clear. He listened in, waiting for voices. When none came, he repeated the process until her heard some.

"And so I told her the shut up before I came down their and beat her ass. She didn't like that, so I went a whole week without any clean clothes. I tell you man, don't ever insult your maid or-"

Red scoffed. That must have been Blue. He always had a knack for pissing people off, especially with his irrelevant stories and unnecessary insults. He changed the channel again.

"So then I found out that my mother HAD been sneaking off with the-"

He didn't bother listening. Green never had anything worth saying, and her voice was the worst type of high pitched Red had ever heard. He'd rather eat a bucket of scallops and spend the rest of the month in the bathroom than listen to her speak for another hour. He changed the channel, hopefully for the last time.

"My mother once told me I was the 'cutest little button' in front of my best friend and he made fun of me for the next two years over it."

Red immediately stiffened, now on high alert. That was Pink's voice. And where there was Pink, there was-

"Your mom is right though. With how cute you are, I would quite literally die for you," he heard Cyan chuckle.

What channel was this?! Red frantically checked, seeing it was channel 3.

Electrical.

Red kept listening, hoping for incriminating evidence. If he had any proof, he would be able to finally convince everyone to throw her out.

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